Description: Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.
“Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York Times
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 . . . ”
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Potter/Ten SPEED/Harmony/Rodale
Publication Year: 2007
Topic: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 9 Oz
Author: Audre. Lorde
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
