Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
Autor(a) de Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
About the Author
An African American lesbian feminist critic and writer, Lorde was born in Harlem and educated at National University of Mexico, Hunter College, and Columbia University. She married in 1962 and divorced in 1970, after having two children. Lorde first came to critical attention with her poetry. Her mostrar mais first poem was published in Seventeen magazine while she was in high school; it had been rejected by her high school newspaper because it was "too romantic" (Lorde considered her "mature" poetry, which focuses on her lesbian relationships, to be romantic also). Other early poems were published in many different journals, many of them under the pseudonym Rey Domini. Her first volume of poetry, "The First Cities," was published in 1968. Lorde then quit her job as head librarian at a school in New York City in order to devote her time to teaching and writing. She was a professor of English at Hunter College from 1980 until her untimely death from cancer in 1992. Although many of Lorde's poems are about love, many are about anger, particularly anger about racism, sexism, and homophobia in America. "The Brown Menace or Poem to the Survival of Roaches" likens African Americans to cockroaches---hated, feared, and poisoned by whites but survivors nevertheless. Other poems express a daughter's anger toward her mother; still others eschew anger for affirmation and inspiration, which are represented as coming from lesbian love and traditional African myths because, as Lorde has said, "the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house." Lorde is also well known for her prose. Her courageous account of her struggle with breast cancer and the mastectomy that she underwent is movingly chronicled in "The Cancer Journals" (1980), her first major prose publication. "Zami, a New Spelling of My Name" (1982) is, in Lorde's words, a "biomythography," combining history, biography, and myth. In "Zami," Lorde focuses on her developing lesbian identity and her response to racism in the white feminist and gay communities, and to sexism and homophobia in the African American community. Lorde's critical essays, collected in "Sister/Outsider" (1984) and "A Burst of Light "(1988), have been quite influential, particularly "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," in which she discusses the relationship of poetry to politics and the erotic. Lorde was the recipient of several grants---from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1968 and 1981 and from the Creative Artists Public Service in 1972---as well as the Borough of Manhattan President's Award for Literary Excellence in 1987. She was also nominated for the National Book Award for poetry in 1974 for her third volume of verse, "From a Land Where Other People Live"(1973). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Audre Lorde
Apartheid U.S.A. / Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties (1986) 9 cópias
Poetry Is Not a Luxury 5 cópias
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde — Autor — 5 cópias
Dzienniki raka 1 exemplar(es)
Hvem sa det var enkelt 1 exemplar(es)
Irmã Marginal 1 exemplar(es)
New Year´s Day 1 exemplar(es)
The Uses of Anger Women Responding to Racism 1 exemplar(es)
When I dare to be powerful. Women so empowered are dangerous 1 exemplar(es)
Entre Nós 1 exemplar(es)
[Selected Poems]: a litany for survival; between ourselves; the brown menace, or poem to the survival of roaches;… 1 exemplar(es)
Audre Lorde 1 exemplar(es)
Lorde, Audre Archive 1 exemplar(es)
Shorelines 1 exemplar(es)
Scratching the Surface: Some Notes to Barriers to Women and Loving. In Black Scholar 9(7) Blacks and the Sexual… 1 exemplar(es)
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism 1 exemplar(es)
Hanging Fire {poem} 1 exemplar(es)
aus der ramasuri no.1 ! Vom Nutzen unserer Wut 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 514 cópias
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Contribuinte — 448 cópias
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuinte — 201 cópias
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contribuinte — 159 cópias
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Contribuinte — 121 cópias
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuinte — 121 cópias
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Contribuinte — 100 cópias
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Contribuinte — 89 cópias
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Contribuinte — 88 cópias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuinte — 83 cópias
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contribuinte — 69 cópias
She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (1989) — Contribuinte — 68 cópias
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008) — Contribuinte — 50 cópias
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology (2024) — Contribuinte — 15 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Lorde, Audre
- Nome de batismo
- Lorde, Audrey Geraldine (birth name)
- Outros nomes
- Adisa, Gamba
- Data de nascimento
- 1934-02-18
- Data de falecimento
- 1992-11-17
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
Harlem, New York, USA - Local de falecimento
- St. Croix, Virgin Islands
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA (birth)
St. Croix, Virgin Islands (death)
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico - Educação
- Hunter College High School
Hunter College
National University of Mexico
Columbia University (Masters/Library science) - Ocupação
- librarian
activist
poet
essayist - Relacionamentos
- Clayton, Frances (partner until 1989)
Joseph, Gloria (partner 1989 - 1992) - Premiações
- Publishing Triangle (Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1992)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1994)
Honorary Doctorate of Literature, Hunter College (1991)
Walt Whitman Citation of Merit (1991)
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Oberlin College (1990)
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Haverford College (1989) (mostrar todas 8)
Manhattan Borough President's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1988)
New York State Poet (1991-1993)
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