Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Clarke, Cheryl, 1947-

Description

1. 190 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. 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. ."

Series statement

1. [The Crossing Press feminist series]

Uniform title

1. Prose works. Selections
2. Crossing Press feminist series

Alternative title

1. Prose works.

Subject

1. Gender identity
2. Feminism
3. African American women
4. Lesbianism
5. Power (Philosophy)
6. Poetry
7. Women
8. Human beings
9. Homosexuality, Female
10. Female
11. Humans
12. Gender Identity
13. Poetry as Topic
14. Identité de genre
15. Féminisme
16. Noires américaines
17. Lesbianisme
18. Pouvoir (Morale)
19. Poésie
20. Femmes
21. Êtres humains
22. sex role
23. feminism
24. poetry
25. women (female humans)
26. Homo sapiens (species)
27. Feminisme
28. Sexual orientation
29. Poesi
30. Feminism
31. Lesbianism
32. Afro-amerikanska kvinnor

Genre/Form

1. Poetry
2. poetry.
3. Essays.
4. Poésie.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Foreword by Cheryl Clarke.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain