LORDE AUDRE

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Οι Πατ Πάρκερ, Όντρι Λορντ και Σέριλ Κλαρκ υπήρξαν ιστορικά προϊόντα των κοινωνικών και πολιτικών κινημάτων που τις δεκαετίες του '60 και του '70 τάραξαν συθέμελα τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, γαλουχήθηκαν μέσα στους αγώνες της μαύρης εργατικής τάξης και το δεύτερο κύμα του γυναικείου κινήματος. Μίλησαν σθεναρά, επίμονα, περήφανα για την τάξη, τη φυλή, το φύλο και τη σεξουαλική ελευθερία. Έγραφαν "ξετσίπωτα ερωτικά ποιήματα", καθιστώντας ορατή τη λεσβιακή σεξουαλικότητα. Οργανώθηκαν και δημιούργησαν κοινότητες αντιτιθέμενες στις όποιες διαιρέσει...
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SISTER OUTSIDER
Σε αυτήν τη συλλογή δοκιμίων και ομιλιών, που αποτελεί ορόσημο για το φεμινιστικό κίνημα, η Λορντ καταπιάνεται με τον σεξισμό, τον ρατσισμό, την ομοφοβία, τις ταξικές διακρίσεις, τον ιμπεριαλισμό, τα τεχνάσματα με τα οποία το σύστημα στρέφει τους καταπιεσμένους τον έναν εναντίον στον άλλον. Με γλώσσα αιχμηρή αλλά και λυρική, αναδεικνύει τις σύνθετες και αλληλένδετες πτυχές της καταπίεσης, εξωτερικής και εσωτερικευμένης, και μας θυμίζει πως δεν μπορούμε να φτιάξουμε τον καινούριο κόσμο με τα υλικά του παλιού: «Τα εργαλεία του αφέντη δεν πρό...
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(P/B) ZAMI: A NEW SPELLING OF MY NAME
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships -- suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone -- un...
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(P/B) The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and essay, Lorde fuses the personal and political to reflect on the many questions breast cancer raises: questions of survival, sexuality, prosthesis and self-care. It is a journey of survival, friendship, and self-acceptance. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) WHEN I DARE TO BE POWERFUL
Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as 'other'. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE BLACK UNICORN
The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet." Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of a poetry which extends beyond w...
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(P/B) SISTER OUTSIDER
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, the erotic and the need for female solidarity, and includes her landmark piece 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the...
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(P/B) SISTER OUTSIDER
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 poe...
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