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ARTS entertainment from the importance placed on the invalid in traditional texts, such as mechanical: the supernatural and the lived ex perience of women, are presented by I am memory akve Bambara in a straightforward not just a name manner. Likewise, traditionally but an intricate part valid concepts, such as plot, time of this web o f motion élément and the political validity of meaning: earth, shy, stars men, are questioned, and circling „ ¿ultimately¿¡deconstructed- Bam .' my heart/ centrifugal. bara’s talent is spent on developing Characters and ideological stance, v- Hagedorn’s diversity shines in rather than on logical progression Dangerous Music. The book consists and representation of “ reality.” primarily, but not exclusively, of Cervantes is the author of Em- poetry, varying in form and in- plumada, a collection of poems ;tensity. Through her writing, reflecting the struggle to find one’s Hagedorn explores the conflict voice. She addresses racial and between traditional values and those sexual conflicts, and the threat of the popular culture, based on her posed by the expansion of white experiences in the Philippines and culture. While she believes in the the United States. Her poems, such poet’s role as a celebrator of life, she as “ Song for my Father,” em stresses the need to confront the phasize the danger behind the ac politics of oppression in any society. ceptance of cultural myths that I am a poet/ who yearns to perpetuate spiritual and physical dance on rooftops,/ to whisper oppression — mainly of women: delicate lines about joy/ and the blessings o f human understanding./ i am trapped I try. I go to my land, my tower by overripe mangoes o f words and/ bolt the door, but the i am trapped typewriter doesn't fade out/ the by the beautiful sadness of women sounds of blasting and muffled i am trapped outrage./ My own days bring me by priests and nuns slaps on the face./ Every day I am Jessica Hagedorn whispering my name , deluged with reminders/ that this is in confession boxes not/ my land i am trapped and this is my land. by antiques and the music Cervantes’ poetry is essentially and Four Women on Womanism of the future fiercely political, especially regarding issues of race. Yet, like Like Harjo, Hagedorn stresses the the others, she promotes survival. omanist 1. A black expand the range of feminist theory Perhaps the most important value of the spirit, and the emptiness She often evokes images of beauty, feminist or feminist of to encompass race, gender and class' element of womanism is the of traditional values that stifle this in life and nature, but never allows W color.... Usually refering to issues. In much the same spirit of establishment of a voice. Not a new spirit. this to overshadow the importance outrageous, audacious, courageous wholeness through creativity, four voice, but a reworking of the old. Bambara’s works include Tales and urgency of confronting op or willful behavior. 2. A woman women writers of various ethnic Each writer, with style, content, or and Short Stories for Black Folk, pression. who loves other women, sexually backgrounds will participate in a, both, challenges the valorised Gorilla, My Love, and The Black The works of these women are not and/or nonsexually.... Committed to UCen Pavilion seminar Saturday, literary traditions of the dominant Woman. While she is mostly known a complete exploration of survival and wholeness of entire May3,2-5p.m. culture that act to stifle marginal for her short stories, she received womanism, but they do make for a people, male and female. groups. The emphasis here is not on critical acclaim for her book The good introduction. In some way, Joy Harjo, Jessica Tarahata confrontation, but survival — sur Salt Eaters, which most closely they form a whole — which is what In this preface to her book of Hagedorn, Toni Cade Bambara, vival of a death called silence. resembles the modern novel. womanism is all about. More im essays called In Search of Our Lorna Dee Cervantes: each a The poetry of Joy Harjo explores Bambara’s tale of a voodoo healer, portant, however, is the opportunity Mothers’ Gardens, Alice Walker woman of vision — creative, feelings of deracination and however, differs from the standard to see and hear them in person, attempts the possibly impossible diverse, and ultimately, political. loneliness not only, in terms of novel in several ways. She because, as Harjo says, “ we/ exist task of unifying the various factions Each is a commentator of the culture, but also of - life in a world so ! -restructures ’the' traditional -form, 'riot ift Words,"but in the motion/ set of feminist scholarship. politics of their society/“ and 'a removed'from ■■ nature.’ Fur Harjo.ra - Which- many consider a limited, off by them," by/ the simple flight of In creating a legitimate definition proponent of the politics of Creek Indian, survival is a matter of bourgeois institution. Subjects crow/ and by us/ in our loving.” of “ womanism,” Walker seeks to womanism. cultural memory, which suffers which would appear distorted or — Terrence Ireland Seeing Things Simply It iathe motion of the heart has written five. The Invasion (1932) described the That draws the slender lips apart, coming of white settlers to the Old Northwest Territory Delight at life, the new-perceived, in the late 18th and early 19th century. The Wife of The radiant, the many-leaved, Martin Guerre (1941) is her best-known Work, a moving The poplar bough, its plumes unbanding, historical account of a young French woman abandoned The hummingbird in thin air standing— by her husband, who accepts an imposter, and pays Motion and quiet reconciled. dearly for the mistake. Against a Darkening Sky (1943) O smile again, sweet child! followed, Lewis’ favorite among her books and her only All too soon these lips will be contemporary work. There were two more historical With Hero’s in eternity. novels: The Trial ofSoren Quist (1947) and The Ghost of MonsieurScarron (1959); n this age of big programs, big government, and big When not writing historically, she draws from .budgets it is refreshing to take a bit of time to gaze knowledge of the pueblos of Santa Fe a sense of natural I at 'sop^et^E^ more. intimate. Janet Lewis, due beauty in woods and wildlife. The richness of the Insensitive public space... to visit campus nekt week, is a poet and a novelist with American Southwest is one of Lewis’ warmest and most an almost childlike gift of examining the little things. sensitive contributions to literature. When she visits She instills oak trees, snails in a wet garden, and Indian UCSB, she will discuss her knowledge of the Southwest Architectural Equality dances with a quiet, nearly magical sensuality. in a talk, “ Changing Portraits of the American Indian in She does not ignore the large things, however. Her Fiction.’) elores Hayden is at war. She is Homes, Neighbors and Cities, and, themes are universal. Two of the most important, nature Lewis admires the fierce individualism which has battling what she sees as “ the most recently, Redesigning the and “ haunting time” underline Lewis’ strong sense of Darchitecture of gender.” American Dream: The Future of history and the past. The themes recur, and her American architecture has always Housing, Work and Family Life. collection Poems Old and New, 1918—1978 has a reflected male ideology and Basing her arguments on historical remarkable sense of cohesiveness, as well as a kind of traditional status-quo. Cities have background, Hayden gives new comfortable ease. always been the man’s domain (ie: insight to the current problems of A careful observer, Lewis (born in 1899) has much to alleys and streets dangerously unlit, housing. She offers possible say. She has been writing for at least 63 years. She grew traditionally unsafe for women). solutions for the merging of up in Chicago, spent some time in New Mexico, and Hayden’s argument is that ar traditional domesticity and moved to Palo Alto in 1927 with her husband, writer Yvor chitecture helps maintain ideological egalitarianism. Winters. She has won awards for her writing, among inequality. Though the traditional Professor Hayden also explores the them the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1950-51 and the Los nuclear family no longer exists as notion of creating a non-sexist public Angeles Times Book Review’s Robert Kirsch Award last the norm, urban planning does not environment in which women might year. reflect this nor does it take into finally feel safe to walk alone, Her poetry is divided into several periods. The earliest account the increasing need for unexposed to suggestive or por is mainly about the American Indian, a theme she comes single parent and two-worker nographic bill-boards and un back to later. These are crisp images, almost haiku in families, child care, transportation, compromised by unsafe surroun their brevity: and aging. It’s time for architecture dings. Women came in silks, in cerise, to reflect the temperament and Hayden will offer a free public In white boots like the earth ideology of current humanity. No lecture in the UCen Pavillion on To watch them./ longer is the Cape Cod house with a Tuesday, May 6 at 8 p.m. Her lecture A deer turned his head white pickett fence a suitable focus. is co-sponsored by Arts and Lec Stiffly. Hayden, who is on faculty at tures, the Department of Sociology, His horns were tipped with down. UCLA’s Graduate School of A r the Women’s Center, the Women’s She is a profoundly sympathetic poet. Later poetry is a chitecture, has authored three Community Building, American bit more formal, with a sense of not only rhyme, but books: Seven American Utopias: Institute of Architects, the Ar rhythm.