Sister outsider : essays and speeches / Audre Lorde ; [new foreword by Cheryl Clarke].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorde, Audre.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Feminism.

Lesbianism.

African American women.

Poetry as Topic.

Homosexuality, Female.

poetry.

feminism.

Medical Subjects:

Poetry as Topic.

Feminism.

Homosexuality, Female.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Essays.

Speeches.

Physical Description:

190 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Crossing Press, 2007.

Summary:

Sister Outsider presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, 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, offering a message of struggle but also of hope. This commemorative edition is, 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. . . ."

Contents:

Notes from a trip to Russia

Poetry is not a luxury

The transformation of silence into language and action

Scratching the surface : some notes on barriers to women and loving

Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power

Sexism : an American disease in blackface

An open letter to Mary Daly

Man child : a black lesbian feminist's response

An interview : Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich

The Master's tools will never dismantle the Master's house

Age, race, class, and sex : women redefining difference

The uses of anger : women responding to racism

Learning from the 60s

Eye to eye : black women, hatred, and anger

Grenada revisited : an interim report.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781580911863

1580911862

OCLC:

951423598