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100 Refutations: Day 29 | InTranslation (intranslation.brooklynrail.org)

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Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873) was a well-known author and playwright who lived nearly half of her life in her native Cuba and the other half in Spain. Her first novel, Sab, was an antislavery novel that predates Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin by a decade. Because of its abolitionist and feminist content, Sab was banned in Cuba until 1914, 73 years after it was first published.

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[–] testing@fedia.io 1 points 10 months ago

from the article:

A Longing for Vengeance

Powerful apparition of hurricanes, violent, like this grief that shakes me! Come, rile me up! Come, with your breath stoke like a flame my mind!

Let lightning hiss and with a clamor crack, while—like dry leaf, like wilted flower— the gust of your breath, the oak fells. Broken and castoff, into the roaring river!

From this soul that invokes and follows you, envying, as she does, the vastness of your devastation, sowing on every side, strange confusions.

Come…to the twisted pain that devours her, unleash your cruelty, and dry the tears that coward weeps!