Audre Lorde's transnational legacies / edited by Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bolaki, Stella, editor.

Bröck-Sallah, Sabine, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lorde, Audre--Criticism and interpretation.

Lorde, Audre.

Lorde, Audre--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Among the most influential and insightful thinkers of her generation, Audre Lorde (1934-1992) inspired readers and activists through her poetry, autobiography, essays, and her political action.Most scholars have situated her work within the context of the women's, gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within the United States.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction: Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies

Part I. Archives

1. The Dream of Europe-Remarks

2. Audre Lorde-The Berlin Years, 1984 to 1992: Transnational Experiences, the Making of a Film, and its Reception

3. Bonds of Sisterhood / Breaking of Silences: An Interview with Audre Lorde

4. Naming Ourselves as Black Women in Europe: An African American-German and Afro-Dutch Conversation

5. Frontiers: An Interview with Audre Lorde

6. Audre Lorde and her French-Speaking Readers

7. Finding My Sisters: Audre Lorde and Black Women in Switzerland

8. Audre Lorde's Relationship and Connections with South African Women

Part II. Connections

9. Sisterhood as Performance in Audre Lorde's Public Advocacy

10. Transracial Feminist Alliances? Audre Lorde and West German Women

11. Emotional Connections: Audre Lorde and Black German Women

12. "I Cross her Borders at Midnight": Audre Lorde's Berlin Revisions

13. "But we are not the same": Generating a Critical Poetics of Diaspora

14. The Geopolitics of the Erotic: Audre Lorde's Mexico and the Decolonization of the Revolutionary Imagination

Part III. Work

15. The Critical Feelings of Audre Lorde, from the Standpoint of an Academic Minor

16. Audre Lorde and What Remains

17. The Cicadas of Courage: Let us Perform Audre Lorde

18. Inscribing the Past, Anticipating the Future: Audre Lorde and the Black Women's Movement in Germany

Afterword

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-61376-352-2

OCLC:

928807913