Sister outsider : essays and speeches / by Audre Lorde.
Publisher: Berkeley : Crossing Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: Revised editionDescription: 190 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 020153024ISBN: 9781580911863; 1580911862Subject(s): African American women | Feminism | Lesbianism | PoetryItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 814.54 LOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 113507 |
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.
"[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware."-- The New York Times
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.
These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to "never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . "
Edition statement taken from title page verso.
"This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke"--back cover.
Date of publication taken from publisher's website, October 2020.
"Text © 1984, 2007 by Audre Lorde"--title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Library Journal Review
Poet and librarian Lorde collected 15 of her finest essays and speeches in this 1984 volume. With her poet's command of language, she addresses sexism, racism, black women, black lesbians, eroticism, and more. Still powerful. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.There are no comments on this title.