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Sister Outsider

By Audre Lorde

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Sister Outsider

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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 . . . "
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2007-08-01
Publication Date:
2007-08-01
Publisher:
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1580911862
ISBN13:
9781580911863
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
252 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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