Carlota

"Carlota was the heroine of Cuba's 19th century black slave revolts and the name given to the military operation in which Cuba came to the aid of the Angolan people in 1975. She is one of many women who appear in this collection of prose and poems from Havana. Margaret Randall has lived and worked in Cuba for nearly a decade. In this, her latest collection, she writes about growing up in middle-class America and raising her kids in revolutionary Cuba. In a geographic panorama ranging from Albuquerque to New York City to Havana, Randall explores the roots of women's anger. These poems and stories confront the socialization process as it oppresses women, the brutality of sexism, and the political transformation by which women find themselves standing up and fighting back. Randall hands on to her children's generation these experiences and the images of women like Carlota, the Pioneer Woman, and herself as mother." --Back cover.