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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Audre Lorde; Rudolph P Byrd; Johnnetta B Cole; Beverly Guy-Sheftall |
| ISBN: | 9780195341485 0195341481 |
| OCLC Number: | 664483632 |
| Notes: | Bibliogr. p. 265-266. |
| Description: | 1 vol. (XV-280 p.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Dedication; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: CREATE YOUR OWN FIRE: AUDRE LORDE AND THE TRADITION OF BLACK RADICAL THOUGHT; PART I.: FROM SISTER OUTSIDER AND A BURST OF LIGHT; The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action; Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface; Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation; I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities; Apartheid USA; Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986; A Burst of Light: Living With Cancer; PART II.: MY WORDS WILL BE THERE; Eva's Man by Gayle Jones: A Review; Self-Definition and My Poetry; Introduction: Movement in Black by Pat Parker; My Words Will Be There" from Black Women Writers; Introduction to Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche Frauen auf den Suren ihrer Geschichte; Preface: Need: A Chorale for Black Women Voices; Poet As Teacher--Human As Poet--Teacher as Human; Poetry Makes Something Happen; My Mother's Mortar; PART III.: DIFFERENCE AND SURVIVAL; Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College; The First Black Feminist Retreat; When Will the Ignorance End? Keynote Address at the First National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference; Litany of Commitment: An Address Delivered at the March on Washington, (1983); Commencement Address: Oberlin College; There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression; What is at Stake in Lesbian and Gay Publishing Today: the Bill Whitehead Award Ceremony; Is Your Hair Still Political?; PART IV.: REFLECTIONS; Audre Lorde: My Shero, My Teacher, My Sister Friend; Audre's Voice; The Imagination of Justice; Remembering Audre Lorde; CONCLUSION, BEARING WITNESS: THE LEGACY OF AUDRE LORDE; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Chronology; Index |
| Series Title: | Transgressing boundaries |
| Responsibility: | edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall. |
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"The editors of this abundant feast of a book remind us of the importance of [Audre Lorde's] work, which for 40 years has served as a foundation and catalyst for questions of identity, difference, power and social justice. There is much to ponder, discuss, teach and revere in this compilation."--Ms. Magazine
"I Am Your Sister is a collection for those who want and need to be introduced to Audre Lorde's thinking, and it is a great anthology for those who have read and been inspired by Lorde's writing all of their lives...a celebration, an honoring, and a thoughtful presentation of who Lorde was...an eye opener to how the struggles of past times continue to be what we grapple with today...a tool for survival--a teacher to help us realize our possibilities for change."--Feminist Review
"I Am Your Sister combines some of Lorde's most powerful essays with previously unavailable writings, as well as reflections on her work from other influential artists and activists."--S
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