Audre Lorde's transnational legacies
By: edited by Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck
Contributors: Bröck-Sallah, Sabine, 1954- editor
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781625341389; 9781625341396
Subjects: Feminism and literature; Influence; Women poets; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Lesbian authors; Women authors; American poetry; History
Description: Although most scholars situate her work within the context of the women's, gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within the United States, Audre Lorde (1934-1992) forged coalitions with women in Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies is the first book to systematically document and thoroughly investigate Lorde's influence beyond the United States. Arranged in three thematically interrelated sections - Archives, Connections, and Work - the volume brings together scholarly essays, interviews, Lorde's unpublished speech about Europe, and personal reflections and testimonials from key figures throughout the world. Using a range of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors assess the reception, translation, and circulation of Lorde's writing and activism within different communities, audiences, and circles. They also shed new light on the work Lorde inspired across disciplinary borders. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Audre Lorde's transnational legacies / Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck; title: Part I. Archives. The dream of Europe : remarks / Audre Lorde ; Audre Lord : the Berlin years, 1984-1992 : transnational experiences, the making of a film, and its reception / Dagmar Schultz ; Bonds of sisterhood : breaking of silences : an interview with Audre Lorde / Marion Kraft ; Naming ourselves as Black women in Europe : an African American-German and Afro-Dutch conversation / Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck and Gloria Wekker ; Frontiers : an interview with Audre Lorde / Pratibha Parmar and Jackie Kay ; Audre Lorde and her French-speaking readers / Rina Nissim ; Finding my sisters : Audre Lorde and Black women in Switzerland / Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli ; Audre Lorde's relationship and connections with South African women / Gloria I. Joseph; title: Part II. Connections. Sisterhood as performance in Audre Lorde's public advocacy / Lester C. Olson ; Transracial feminist alliances? : Audre Lorde and West German women / Katharina Gerund ; Emotional connections : Audre Lorde and Black German women / Tiffany N. Florvil ; "I cross her borders at midnight" : Audre Lorde's Berlin revisions / Paul M. Farber ; "But we are not the same" : generating a critical poetics of diaspora / Alexis Pauline Gumbs ; The geopolitics of the erotic : Audre Lorde's Mexico and the decolonization of the revolutionary imagination / Tamara Lea Spira; title: Part III. Work. The critical feelings of Audre Lorde from the standpoint of an academic minor / Sarah Cefai ; Audre Lorde and what remains / Chantal Oakes ; The cicadas of courage : let us perform Audre Lorde / Christiana Lambrinidis ; Inscribing the past, anticipating the future : Audre Lorde and the Black women's movement in Germany / Peggy Piesche; title: Afterword / Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck.