Claudia Tate (1947–2002)
Autor(a) de Black Women Writers at Work
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Image credit: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Ron Carter
Obras por Claudia Tate
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1947-12-14
- Data de falecimento
- 2002-07-29
- Sexo
- female
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 164
- Popularidade
- #129,117
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 16
And we must not remain silent while the blood of our sisters/brothers/neighbors/communities/fellow human beings is shed.
Sherley Anne Williams reiterates this responsibility of a writer to write as well as one can and to "say as much of the truth as I can see at any given time."
Although this book is dated, and does not include my favorite author (Octavia Butler), I am so glad that I read this book in spite of my initial misgivings. From Bambara's hope that "We care too much ... to negotiate a bogus peace," to DeVeaux's "responsibility to see," I find my own compulsion to write validated by the responsibility of a writer to render individual expression into a universal expression, and to give voice to the voiceless/unseen/erased. To show the unspoken and to "empathize with the general human condition."
Society needs all perspectives because without those perspectives, we are missing vast parts of what our society actually looks like, which leads to deep problems. Writing, as was pointed out, must transcend individual experience, but it also comes from and is filtered through individual experience, so we desperately need every point of view.… (mais)