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When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision

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Re-vision- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction- is for us more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for woman, is more than a search for identity: it is part of her refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society. 

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Author: 
Adrienne Rich
Published Date: 
25/06/2014
Issue: 
Political and Public Participation