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The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
Margarita Engle
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| #166068 in Books | Harcourt Brace and Company | 2015-09-15 | 2015-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.53 x5.50l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | Harcourt Brace and Company||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Every young girl should read this book.|By Tania|Poetic dystopian? Well, not really but in this gorgeously written, wonderful little book the author describes a girl ahead of her time whose voice cannot be quieted despite many attempts by her mother and mother country. Engle's "Tula" rejects the status quo of slavery and women as property. She is ahead of her time and "fights"|From Booklist|*Starred * Engle’s historical novel in verse is a fictionalized biography of the nineteenth-century Cuban abolitionist poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, known as Tula. Told in multipl
“I find it so easy to forget / that I’m just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts.”
Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled their work in metaphor. Of these, the boldest was Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. In passionate, accessible verses of her own, Engle evokes the voice of this book-loving feminist and abolitionist who b...
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