Further Authentic Stories of Half-Ladies - Paperback
Further Authentic Stories of Half-Ladies - Paperback
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by Isabel Cristina Legarda (Author)
At once provocative, transgressive, and elegiac, Further Authentic Stories of Half-Ladies dares to examine the embodied experience of women and girls who have been put on display-Sarah Baartman, Julia Pastrana, Afong Moy, Eugenia Martinez Vallejo, and ballet students at the Paris Opera of the 1880s. Among collages and poems voicing their lived experience are other poems that contemplate the body itself-its components, its vulnerability, the study of its inner workings, and its meaning. By intimately connecting outer world realities of systemic injustice, exploitation, and cruelty with deep inner realities of trauma and resilience, this collection resists injustice, protests erasure, and vividly brings to life the longings, desires, fears, and endurance of women whose stories must not be forgotten.
