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03592aam a2200385 i 4500 001 5D003988BC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48 003 SILO 005 20200702010020 008 190829t20202020ncua b 001 0aeng 010 $a 2019032709 020 $a 1478006188 020 $a 9781478006183 035 $a (OCoLC)1101978193 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCL $d RB0 $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3535 A56277 Z465 2020 100 1 $a Randall, Margaret, $d 1936- $e author. 245 10 $a I never left home : $b poet, feminist, revolutionary : a memoir of time & place / $c Margaret Randall. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 326 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a How This Book Came to Be -- Where It All Started: Before My Birth and the Early Years, 1936-1947 -- Landscape of Desire: High School and Beyond, 1947-1958 -- The Picture Plane: New York, 1958-1961 -- Where Stones Weep: Mexico, 1961-1969 -- Interlude: Escape -- First Free Territory: Cuba, 1969-1980 -- Volcano: Nicaragua, 1980-1984 -- Home: 1984 and Beyond. 520 $a "I NEVER LEFT HOME is a memoir by Margaret Randall, capturing details about her life as an American writer, activist, and academic who lived in Latin America for twenty-three years. Randall resettled in the United States in the eighties, after waging a successful five-year battle against deportation. The memoir, which chronologically charts her time in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, reproduces the meaning and feelings of particular eras and their cultures, politics, and everyday life. Poems and quotes from others, as well as some of her own creative work, are interspersed throughout the chapters, creating vivid images of places and people in time. After an introduction that explains how the book came to be, the chapters follow Randall's life trajectory chronologically. Chapter 1 explores Randall's family history and early days in New York during an era of Anti-Semitism and Jim Crow. She speaks of her parents, Jews who had settled in New York, and how hard they tried to escape their Jewishness, an internalized prejudice that would influence most of their family life. In chapters 2 and 3, Randall reminisces on her young adult years and, particularly, her encounters with poetry, art, and feminism during the ensuing Civil Rights era. Randall then writes extensively of the political, literary, and artistic landscape of Mexico City, her years amidst the Cuban Revolution, and her time with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The final chapter, "Home - 1984 and Beyond," maps her return to the mainland United States and her career as a professor. This book will be of interest to a general readership, but also to students and scholars in Latin American studies and cultural studies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Randall, Margaret, $d 1936- 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women political activists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women college teachers $v Biography. 650 0 $a Jewish women authors $v Biography. 600 17 $a Randall, Margaret, $d 1936- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00068025 776 08 $i Online version: $a Randall, Margaret J., 1936- $t I never left home $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. $z 9781478007616 $w (DLC) 2019032710 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117033304.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105040835.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5D003988BC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search