Sister Outsider, 9780241410509
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Radical, black lesbian feminist writings on race, sexuality, and female power.
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Sister Outsider

essays and speeches

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    3 July 2019

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Summary

Sister Outsider: The Essential Writings of Audre Lorde

The woman’s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.

The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those ‘outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women’. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241410509
ISBN-10:0241410509
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Author:Audre Lorde
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:3 July 2019
Weight:158g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 12mm
About The Author

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died of cancer in 1992, aged 58.

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