Poem About My Rights (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: June Jordan
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Discrimination, Africa or Africans, Racism, Blacks, Race, Women, South Africa or South Africans, Apartheid
The Poem
“Poem About My Rights,” written in free verse, juxtaposes the personal odyssey of one black woman facing oppression in the United States with the political struggle of nations against oppression in southern Africa. The poem’s title is ironic, as the narrator chronicles the “wrongs” that exist within the person she is as well as the external conditions that impact her. Society’s edicts infringe upon and impede any rights that author June Jordan feels are hers. She is a product of her people’s heritage and, as such, must live according to contemporary...
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