Books by Audre Lorde (Author of Sister Outsider).
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Audre Lorde, self-identified as a black lesbian feminist, used literature to spread ideas of intersectionality during the political movements of the mid-to-late 20th century. A child of parents from the West Indies in New York City, Lorde started her writing career young and went on to teach as well as becoming involved in political activism through her work and organizations she helped found.
Audre Lorde's speech, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, “sheds light on the margins of rhetoric in the sense of the public speech because she examines factors that may cause some people to remain silent while enabling others to speak and act. “Margins” refers both to the parameters employed for defining a practice and the relative place or value of varied.
The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, And Journals By Audre Lorde This volume contains three works by the famous US black, lesbian poet and academic, Audre Lorde Both The Cancer Journals and A Burst of Light give an insight over a ten year period of her life with cancer Sister Outsider continues her writing and documents her essays and speeches.
The Audre Lorde Compendium. Essays, Speeches and Journals. Author: Audre Lorde. Publisher: Pandora Press. ISBN: Category: African American lesbians. Page: 336. View: 727. Download Now. This volume contains three works by the famous US black, lesbian poet and academic, Audre Lorde. Both The Cancer Journals and A Burst of Light give an insight over a ten year period of her life with cancer.
Throughout the fifteen essays and speeches that comprise the volume, Lorde asserts that because she is a black, queer woman, she is considered an outsider, but that it is precisely her outsider perspective that allows her to see the various layers of identity-based oppression. A pioneer of intersectional feminism, Sister Outsider encourages the reader to embrace their difference and weaponize.