Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

"Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, 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, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, 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. . . .'" --Provided by publisher Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. “[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”— The New York Times In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, 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, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, 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 . . . ” Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, 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, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, 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 ..." "[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware."?New York Times Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Acknowledgments Contents Foreword Introduction Notes from a Trip to Russia Poetry Is Not a Luxury The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface An Open Letter to Mary Daly Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Response An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism Learning from the 60s Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report The leader of contemporary feminist theory discusses such issues as racism, self-acceptance, and mother- and woman-hood