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Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel Paperback - 2010

by Alice Walker


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In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony.
Bearing witness to the depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories of the individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suffering and courage. Part of what has happened to human beings over the last century, she believes, is that we have been rendered speechless by unusually barbaric behavior that devalues human life. We have no words to describe what we witness. Self-imposed silence has slowed our response to the plight of those who most need us, often women and children, but also men of conscience who resist evil but are outnumbered by those around them who have fallen victim to a belief in weapons, male or ethnic dominance, and greed.

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  • Title Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
  • Author Alice Walker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seven Stories Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-04-06
  • ISBN 9781583229170 / 1583229175
  • Weight 0.15 lbs (0.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.9 x 5.1 x 0.2 in (17.53 x 12.95 x 0.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Central Africa
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: African
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Rwanda - Social conditions, Congo (Democratic Republic) - Social
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009047607
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.6

About the author

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, ALICE WALKER is the author of more than thirty books including The Color Purple and Sent by Earth. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages. From her essays concerning the civil rights movement to her cries for intervention on the Gaza Strip, Walker continually and eloquently calls attention to ignored injustices around the world.
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