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Herostories (Paperback)
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Herostories (Paperback)
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Loot Price R429
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Herostories reveals tales untold by most history books: the
harrowing journeys and vital triumphs of 19th and 20th century
midwifery in the vast landscape of Iceland. Composed from the
memoirs and biographies of 100 Icelandic midwives, poet-historian
Kristin Svava Tomasdottir's found poems illuminate the dangers and
valor of birthwork. Forgoing traditional sagas of androcentric
conquest, these poems center the adventures of ljosmaedur, "mothers
of light." Tomasdottir leverages epic elements-dashing mountain
treks, rivers forded on horseback, unyielding compassion-to
challenge how and by whom stories become legend. The follow-up to
Tomasdottir/Thors' award-winning, PEN-nominated Stormwarning,
Herostories documents the professional achievements of the island's
first women to work outside the home, precursors to today's
midwives who remain central to contemporary Icelandic healthcare.
Beyond archival recognition, the text's formally ambitious poetics
render gender-based battles for literacy and education alongside
narratives of selfless womanly caretaking, pressurizing the
fundamental tensions between feminine self-actualization and the
romanticized service of these trailblazing figures.
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