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Margaret Randall (born December 6, 1936, New York City, USA) is an American-born writer, photographer, activist and academic. Born in New York City, she lived for many years in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and spent time in North Vietnam during the last months of the U.S. war in that country. She has written extensively on her experiences abroad and back in the United States, and has taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and other colleges. ==Biography== Randall moved to Mexico in the 1960s, and married a Mexican citizen, giving up her American citizenship. She moved to Cuba in 1969, where she deepened her interest in women's issues and wrote oral histories of mainly women, "want() to understand what a socialist revolution could mean for women, what problems it might solve and which leave unsolved."〔 Her 2009 memoir ''To Change The World: My Years in Cuba'' chronicle that period of her life. She lived in Managua, Nicaragua, from 1980 to 1984, writing about Nicaraguan women, and returned to the United States after an absence of 23 years.〔 Shortly after her return in 1984, she was ordered deported under the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952. The government’s case rested on two arguments. First, while living in Mexico and married to a Mexican citizen, she had taken out Mexican citizenship, thereby presumably losing her U.S. citizenship. This was in 1967. In addition, under McCarran-Walter, the government claimed that the opinions Randall expressed in several of her books were "against the good order and happiness of the United States". The INS district director gave the justification that "her writings go far beyond mere dissent".〔Alison E. Clasby. ("Comment: The McCarran-Walter Act and Ideological Exclusion: A Call for Reform" ), ''University of Miami Law Review'', May 1989. Retrieved 21 January 2013.〕 With the support of many well-known writers and others, Randall won a Board of Immigration Appeals case in 1989 ordering the INS to grant her adjustment of status to permanent residence. She now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her partner of many years, the painter Barbara Byers. She travels widely to read and lecture. She was a professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and also taught briefly at the University of New Mexico, Macalester College, and the University of Delaware. Among her best-known books are ''Cuban Women Now'', ''Sandino’s Daughters'', ''Sandino’s Daughters Revisited'', and ''When I Look into the Mirror and see You: Women, Terror and Resistance'' (all oral history with essay). Recent books include ''Che On My Mind'' (essay), ''The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones''〔http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=157〕 (poetry), and ''More than Things'' (essays), .''To Change the World: My Years in Cuba'' (memoir, with photos), ''Narrative of Power and First Laugh'' (essay), and ''Stones Witness, Their Backs to the Sea, My Town, Something's Wrong with the Cornfields'', and ''Ruins'' (poems, with photos), and ''As If the Empty Chair / Como si la silla vacía'' (poems in tribute to the disappeared of Latin America, in bilingual edition, translations by Leandro Katz and Diego Guerra). The desert of the U.S. Southwest is her spiritual home, and ancient ruins—here and in other parts of the world—are increasingly her greatest source of inspiration. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Randall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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