Sister outsider : essays and speeches

Lorde, Audre (author.). Clarke, Cheryl, 1947- (writer of foreword.).

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: 1580911862
ISBN: 9781580911863
Physical Description: 190 pages ; 23 cm.
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Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: Berkeley [California] : Crossing Press, [2007]
Copyright: ©2007

Content descriptions

General Note:	Foreword by Cheryl Clarke.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Notes from a trip to Russia -- Poetry is not a luxury -- The transformation of silence into language and action -- Scratching 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 : 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 60s -- Eye to eye : black women, hatred, and anger -- Grenada revisited : an interim report.