A Study Guide for Lorna Dee Cervantes's "Refugee Ship"
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A Study Guide for Lorna Dee Cervantes's "Refugee Ship" - Gale
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Refugee Ship
Lorna Dee Cervantes
1974
Introduction
Lorna Dee Cervantes's Refugee Ship
launched her career as a major American poet after it was published in 1974, in the Mexico City newspaper El Heraldo. The poem was included in Cervantes's Emplumada (1981), which went on to win the 1982 American Book Award. The poem explores the speaker's search for an identity as a Chicana adrift without language to guide her. Orphaned by her mother from the Spanish language, the speaker looks Chicana in the mirror but stumbles over the words that are her birthright. She is a refugee without a home, without a language of her own, without a safe harbor, and without an identity. Appearing at a time when few Chicana poets were published and even fewer taught in classrooms, Refugee Ship
inspired generations of Chicana writers to make their voices heard.
Author Biography
Cervantes was born in San Francisco's Mission District on August 6, 1954. Growing up as a mixed Mexican and Native American, Cervantes was discouraged from learning Spanish by her mother, who hoped to shield her daughter from racism. Cervantes moved to San Jose at the age of five to live with her mother, brother, and grandmother following her parents' divorce. The barrio where she grew up was overrun with gang violence and crippling poverty. Raised primarily by her grandmother, Cervantes taught her grandmother to read and write by reviewing her school lessons from kindergarten through her graduation from high school. Her grandmother, a native Californian and survivor of the genocide of the Chumash tribe, had been sold into slavery as a girl and was never taught to read. Cervantes graduated from high school in 1972 and