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Sister outsider : essays and speeches / by Audre Lorde ; [new foreword by Cheryl Clarke].

Summary:

Sister Outsider presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, 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, offering a message of struggle but also of hope. This commemorative edition is, 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. . . ."

Record details

ISBN: 9781580911863 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 1580911862 (trade pbk.)
Physical Description: 190 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Crossing Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreward -- Introduction -- Notes from a Trip to Russia -- Poetry Is Not a Luxury -- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action -- Scathing the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving -- Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power -- Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface -- An Open Letter to Mary Daly -- Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist's Response -- An Interview: An Inerview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich -- The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House -- Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference -- The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism -- Learning from the 60's -- Eye to Eye: Black Woman, Hatered, and Anger -- Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report