Adrienne Rich - Our Whole Life Flashcards

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Language is created by male dominant societies, as such, women cannot accurately communicate the truth of their experience.
Their experience is told through an alien language

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Our whole life is a translation

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Misinformation 
Propaganda
Alternative facts
The language is inappropriate and alien
The knot of lies that constraints women may one day become undone, liberating them
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And now a knot of lies eating at itself to get undone

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A letter sent but gone misisnh
A woman’s message lost in alien language
Women are subjected

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Dead letters rendered into the oppressors language

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He didn’t run , no point, ground down by oppressor
A picture paints a thousand words
An image may be a better form of communication
Language cannot express the pain and suffering

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Like the Algerian who walked from his village, burning

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He is voiceless

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There are no words for this except himself

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