Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel by Alice Walker

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

Alice Walker

75 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Pale...

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Moods

informative 63%
emotional 54%
reflective 45%
sad 45%
hopeful 36%
inspiring 36%
challenging 27%
dark 27%
tense 9%

Pace

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slow 9%
medium 9%

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