Sister Outsider
Subtitle: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
Contributors: Cheryl Clarke (Foreword)
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Crossing Press
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781580911863
Subjects: African American Literature; Lorde, Audre - Poems & Criticism; Literary Collections; Nonfiction; Literature: Classics; Essays; Lesbian Studies; American - African American; Feminism & Feminist Theory
First sentence: The flight to Moscow was nine hours long, and from my observations on the plane, Russians are generally as unfriendly to each other as Americans are and just about as unhelpful.
Description: 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?one that still resonates with us after more than 20 years. 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. . . .?