I’ve Been a Woman (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Wilsonia Benita Driver
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Justice, Language or languages, Racism, Race, Women’s issues, Oppression, Women
Form and Content
For Sonia Sanchez, politics and poetry have always been inextricably linked. She wrote one of her first poems about an aunt who spat in a bus driver’s face when he ordered her to leave a bus that was filling up with white people and published her first book of poetry, Homecoming, in 1969 after becoming involved with the organization of a black studies curriculum at San Francisco State College in the mid-1960’s. “One of the things which has propelled me all my life is when a principle is violated. America has violated many principles as far as black...
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