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    The poem describes the voices of women in the speaker's family across generations. The voice of the great-grandmother echoed as a child suffering in the ship's bowels, reflecting a lost childhood. The grandmother's voice echoed obedience to white owners. The mother's voice whispered revolt while working in whites' kitchens. The speaker's voice still echoes verses of blood and hunger. The daughter's voice unites all the silenced voices in the family line and will echo freedom and life.

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    The poem describes the voices of women in the speaker's family across generations. The voice of the great-grandmother echoed as a child suffering in the ship's bowels, reflecting a lost childhood. The grandmother's voice echoed obedience to white owners. The mother's voice whispered revolt while working in whites' kitchens. The speaker's voice still echoes verses of blood and hunger. The daughter's voice unites all the silenced voices in the family line and will echo freedom and life.

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    The poem describes the voices of women in the speaker's family across generations. The voice of the great-grandmother echoed as a child suffering in the ship's bowels, reflecting a lost childhood. The grandmother's voice echoed obedience to white owners. The mother's voice whispered revolt while working in whites' kitchens. The speaker's voice still echoes verses of blood and hunger. The daughter's voice unites all the silenced voices in the family line and will echo freedom and life.

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    Women Voices by Conceição Evaristo Women Voices by Conceição Evaristo

    Tradução: Mª Aparecida Salgueiro Tradução: Mª Aparecida Salgueiro

    The voice of my great-grandmother The voice of my great-grandmother


    echoed as a child echoed as a child
    inside the ship’s bowels. inside the ship’s bowels.
    Echoing moans Echoing moans
    of a lost childhood. of a lost childhood.

    The voice of my grandmother The voice of my grandmother


    echoed obedience echoed obedience
    to the white-owners of everything. to the white-owners of everything.

    The voice of my mother The voice of my mother


    whispered echoes of revolt whispered echoes of revolt
    in the very end of the other’s kitchens in the very end of the other’s kitchens
    under the trusses under the trusses
    of whites’ dirty linen of whites’ dirty linen
    along the dusty road along the dusty road
    towards the slum. towards the slum.

    My voice still My voice still


    echoes perplexing verses echoes perplexing verses
    in rhymes of blood in rhymes of blood
    and and
    hunger. hunger.

    The voice of my daughter The voice of my daughter


    uniting all our voices uniting all our voices
    gathers within itself gathers within itself
    the dumb silenced voices the dumb silenced voices
    choking in our throats. choking in our throats.
    The voice of my daughter The voice of my daughter
    gathers within itself gathers within itself
    speech and action. speech and action.
    Yesterday - today - now. Yesterday - today - now.
    In my daughter’s voice In my daughter’s voice
    the resonance will be heard the resonance will be heard
    the echo of freedom-life. the echo of freedom-life.

    3. Read the main ideas of stanzas and 3. Read the main ideas of stanzas and
    match the columns match the columns
    I. Sua voz é obediente para seus senhores I. Sua voz é obediente para seus senhores
    brancos. brancos.
    II Sua voz reúne as vozes silenciadas na II Sua voz reúne as vozes silenciadas na
    garganta de suas antepassadas. garganta de suas antepassadas.
    III Sua voz ecoava como a de uma criança III Sua voz ecoava como a de uma criança
    gemendo. gemendo.
    IV Sua voz mostra revolta pela estrada rumo à IV Sua voz mostra revolta pela estrada rumo à
    comunidade. comunidade.
    V Sua voz ainda tem rimas de sofrimento e V Sua voz ainda tem rimas de sofrimento e
    fome. fome.
    [ ] great-grandmother [ ] grandmother [ ] great-grandmother [ ] grandmother
    [ ] mother [ ] poetic persona [ ] mother [ ] poetic persona
    [ ] daughter [ ] daughter

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