Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Lorde, Audre
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1580911862
- ISBN 13
- 9781580911863
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Synopsis
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 . . . ”
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- Bookseller
- Cavalier House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9781580911863U
- Title
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Author
- Lorde, Audre
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1580911862
- ISBN 13
- 9781580911863
- Publisher
- Crossing Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 8/1/2007