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Black lesbian in white America and other writings / Anita Cornwell ; edited by Briona Simone Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornwell, Anita, 1923-2023, author.
- Series:
- Sapphic classics
- A Sapphic Classic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cornwell, Anita, 1923-2023.
- Cornwell, Anita.
- Lorde, Audre--Interviews.
- Lorde, Audre.
- African American lesbians--United States.
- African American lesbians.
- Lesbian feminism--United States.
- Lesbian feminism.
- African American women--Poetry.
- African American women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages.).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Dover, FL : Sinister Wisdom, Inc., 2025.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Briona Simone Jones
- Introduction / by Anita Cornwell
- I. The Black lesbian in white America. Three for the price of one: notes from a gay Black feminist
- The Black lesbian in a malevolent society
- The lesser of the worst
- Some notes on the Black lesbian and the womin-identified womin concept
- On watching a tv special: aw womyn, why men?
- II. "I am Black, woman, and poet." A interview with Audre Lorde
- III. First love and other sorrows: six pieces from an autobiography. Fleeing the myths of motherhood
- A place of her own
- The second time around
- Dark interlude
- Another time, another place
- First love and other sorrows
- IV. Lament for two bamboozled sisters
- a sequence of letters. V. To the womyn: poems. I. Lamentations
- II. To the womyn
- For Grandmother Iola, (1883-1978)
- Then I told them
- New love?
- Tiny Eastern woman
- To an ex-Golden Girl
- Question
- Celestial error
- Fettered red woman
- An ode to the ladies
- Elegy for a "girl" guerrilla
- Helpful hints
- Ravaged Western woman
- III. For a young soul sister
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781944981891
- 1944981896
- Publisher Number:
- 90102218513
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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