Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Zami ; Sister Outsider ; Undersong
Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Undersong
Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393309751
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Features poems that affirm the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the poet in words conveying vision and courage
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393309751
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Features poems that affirm the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the poet in words conveying vision and courage
Sister Outsider
Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143134442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
“Sister Outsider, a collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books. It’s always great to have an intersectional tome on hand.” —Amanda Gorman "Sister Outsider's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone." —Essence Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne. A New York Times New & Noteworthy book A Penguin Vitae Edition 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. The groundbreaking feminist's timely collection of nonfiction writings on race, gender, and LGBTQ issues is now for the first time in Penguin Classics as part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by poet Mahogany L. Browne. Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power, and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from almost seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143134442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
“Sister Outsider, a collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books. It’s always great to have an intersectional tome on hand.” —Amanda Gorman "Sister Outsider's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone." —Essence Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne. A New York Times New & Noteworthy book A Penguin Vitae Edition 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. The groundbreaking feminist's timely collection of nonfiction writings on race, gender, and LGBTQ issues is now for the first time in Penguin Classics as part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by poet Mahogany L. Browne. Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power, and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from almost seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
Zami
Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 024135109X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous, life-affirming autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape. 'Her work shows us new ways to imagine the world ... so many themes of Audre's work have endured' Renni Eddo Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 'I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. She was an inspiration' Jackie Kay
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 024135109X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous, life-affirming autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape. 'Her work shows us new ways to imagine the world ... so many themes of Audre's work have endured' Renni Eddo Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 'I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I was to have found her. She was an inspiration' Jackie Kay
"On Ne Naît Pas Femme : on Le Devient"
Author: Bonnie Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190608811
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne naît pas femme: on le devient," finding in it a flashpoint of feminist thinking. Two controversies emerge from this sentence which the volume addresses from multiple scholarly perspectives: one over the practice of translation and one over the nature and status of sexual difference.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190608811
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne naît pas femme: on le devient," finding in it a flashpoint of feminist thinking. Two controversies emerge from this sentence which the volume addresses from multiple scholarly perspectives: one over the practice of translation and one over the nature and status of sexual difference.
Cereus Blooms at Night
Author: Shani Mootoo
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802144621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"This book is a haunting multi-generational novel about the shifting faces of Mala - adventurer and protector, recluse and madwoman. The plot contains sexual violence and mature themes" -- Prové de l'editor.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802144621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"This book is a haunting multi-generational novel about the shifting faces of Mala - adventurer and protector, recluse and madwoman. The plot contains sexual violence and mature themes" -- Prové de l'editor.
The Humble Administrator's Garden
Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The first collection of poems by the worldwide bestselling author of 'A Suitable Boy' and 'The Golden Gate'.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The first collection of poems by the worldwide bestselling author of 'A Suitable Boy' and 'The Golden Gate'.
Chosen Poems, Old and New
Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393300178
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Here are the words of some of the women I have been, am being still, will come to be, writes Audre Lorde of this volume, in which she brings together many of the most important poems she has written over the past thirty years."
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393300178
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Here are the words of some of the women I have been, am being still, will come to be, writes Audre Lorde of this volume, in which she brings together many of the most important poems she has written over the past thirty years."
Uses of the Erotic
Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher: Crossing Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher: Crossing Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Sister Love
Author: Julie R. Enszer
Publisher: Sinister Wisdom
ISBN: 9781938334290
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"African american women writer Audre Lorde and poet Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidences through the mail. They sent each other handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards often with inserted items including articles, money, and video tapes. This book gathers this correspondence for readers to eavesdrop on Lorde and Parker as they discuss their work as writers as well as intimate details of their lives, including periods when each lived with cancer."--Publisher.
Publisher: Sinister Wisdom
ISBN: 9781938334290
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"African american women writer Audre Lorde and poet Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidences through the mail. They sent each other handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards often with inserted items including articles, money, and video tapes. This book gathers this correspondence for readers to eavesdrop on Lorde and Parker as they discuss their work as writers as well as intimate details of their lives, including periods when each lived with cancer."--Publisher.