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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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Title
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Abstract/Description
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. 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. . . ."
Author/creator
Lorde, Audre
Date
1984
Publisher
Crossing Press
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en No
Language
en
ISBN
978-0-89594-141-1
Citation
Lorde, A. (1984). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press.
Cited in
Community-Based Partnerships: Advancing Epistemic Rights through Improvement Research
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Textbook
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 9 Citations

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