Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

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 . . . "

Audre Lorde, a writer, activist, and mother of two, grew raised in Harlem in the 1930s. She graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in library science, won a National Endowment for the Arts poetry award, and served as New York State's Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She has twelve books to her credit, including Zami and The Black Unicorn. Lorde died of cancer in 1992, at the age of 58.

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ISBN 13	9781580911863
ISBN 10	1580911862
Title	Sister Outsider
Author	Audre Lorde
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2007-08-01
Number of pages	192
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