Sister outsider: essays and speeches

= Klappentext: Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and cl...

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Main Author: Lorde, Audre 1934-1992 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley Crossing Press 2007
Edition:Revised edition
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Summary:= Klappentext: Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.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. ..."
Physical Description:190 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9781580911863
1580911862

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