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Title: Selected Works of Audre Lorde, The
Author: LORDE AUDRE
Illustrator: GAY ROXANE (ED
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: NORTON
Price: $37.00
Publishing status: Active
A collection of Lorde’s groundbreaking prose and poems on race, injustice, intersectional feminism, and queer identity. A trailblazing black lesbian writer and activist, Lorde (1934-1992) produced a prolific and profound body of work. In this compilation, Gay presents a selection of representative texts from among Lorde’s prose and poetry. The compilation features a dozen essays, including a series of journal entries about living with cancer; selections from Lorde’s American Book Award-winning collection, A Burst of Light (1988); and more than 60 poems taken from multiple volumes, including National Book Award nominee The Land Where Other People Live (1973). For Gay, Lorde was the first to demonstrate that \”a writer could be intensely concerned with the inner and outer lives of black queer women, that our experiences could be the center instead of relegated to the periphery. She wrote beyond the white gaze and imagined a black reality that did not subvert itself to the cultural norms dictated by whiteness.\” In the oft-quoted \”The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,\” Lorde denounces white women for being in bed with the \”racist patriarchy,\” excluding black women’s leadership and ideas from supposedly feminist spaces. In \”Uses of the Erotic,\” Lorde calls for a more expansive view and embrace of the erotic \”as a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane.\” She also revisits the turbulent onset of her adolescence and complex relationship with her mother. Lorde’s poems, urgent and intimate, focus on the ordinary and the extraordinary, a range of subjects including love, death and dying, and police killings of black people with impunity. That the author’s masterful work is as relevant and necessary today as it was in the last century is both a tribute to her and a condemnation of a society that continues to oppress and marginalize black women. An essential anthology that challenges our 21st-century social and political consciousness.
ISBN: 9781324004615