Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by Audre Lorde
Description
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.
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In this charged collection of 15 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 20 years after they were first published.
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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 . . . "
About the Author
Audre Lorde grew up in 1930s Harlem. She earned a master's degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State's Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of 12 books, including Zami and The Black Unicorn. Lorde, a mother of two, died of cancer at the age of 58 in 1992.
Product Details
Category: Essay
Language: English
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New
ISBN-10: 1580911862
ISBN-13: 978-1580911863
Publisher: Crossing Press
Date Published: August 01, 2007
Pages: 192
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