Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenos
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807065161 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 235 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alice Joyce. The "remedies" set forth reflect a vast herbal lore, demonstrating the potent, curative effects of herbs as called upon by generations of curanderas, like Morales herself. Cross-cultural influences like Morales' Jewish Latina heritage and her own personal experience of abuse are reflected in a keen ability to communicate with powerful authority how the island's women exhibit a buoyant solidarity in the face of a horrific history encompassing the Crusades, the conquistadores, and the slave trade. Herbs also symbolize a means to deflect the outrage engendered by centuri
"Know your history, know your healing" according to Roslynn Tellvik. Interconnection is real. Earth is real. The violence of patriarchy, colonization, anti-semitism, and genocide are real. Our lives continue to be shaped by these violences; both intergenerational and contemporary. Healing grows organically and is nurtured by roots of understanding, storytelling, compassion, courage.These are some of the ideas that. "Morales mirrors other works" according to A Customer. As she does in Medicine Stories, Morales involves an innovative form in her writing. While following a chronological timeline, she weaves together many historically based stories. What at first seems confusing, eventually melds to show that Morales is writing about the women left out of history. She presents personal stories about each woman and . "Excellent Book" according to valvarado. This is a fantastic scholarly and creative work. Well researched, Levins-Morales combines her own story as a thread that connects the disparate histories of women in Puerto Rico. The author references European, African and American Indian influences and how the melding of these cultures/peoples created what we consider today to be Puerto Rico. It
Aurora Levins Morales is author of Getting Home Alive (Firebrand, 1986) and Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity (South End Press, 1998). She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. . A Jewish "red diaper baby" from the mountains of Puerto Rico, Morales
Yet the nature of the healing narrative is not limited to the lives of others. Beginning with the First Mother in sub-Saharan Africa more than 200,000 years ago, Aurora Levins Morales takes us on a journey through time and around the globe. Replete with herbal lore and tales of heroines whose work and words have sustained generations, Remedios offers the curative history of the many women - and cultures - who have met at the crossroads of the island of Puerto Rico. Bearing witness to a much larger history of abuse and resistance by women and men, Levins Morales weaves in her own story of pain and healing, the horror of abuse, ameliorated through the restorative power of memory. Enriched with explanations of the medicinal properties of herbs and foods such as rosemary, ginkgo, and banana, Remedios revives our connection to the forgotten lore of our grandmothers.