| Description |
xv, 280 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Transgressing boundaries |
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Transgressing boundaries.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : create your own fire : Audre Lorde and the tradition of black radical thought / Rudolph P. Byrd -- Pt. I: From Sister outsider and A burst of light. The transformation of silence into language and action ; Sexism : an American disease in blackface ; Sadomasochism : not about condemnation : an interview with Audre Lord / Susan Leigh Starr ; I am your sister : black women organizing across sexualities ; Apartheid U.S.A. ; Turning the beat around : lesbian parenting 1986 ; A burst of light : living with cancer -- Pt. II: My words will be there. Eva's man by Gayl Jones : a review ; Self-definition and my poetry ; Introduction : Movement in black by Pat Parker ; My words will be there ; Foreword to the English edition of Farbe bekennen : Afro-deutsche frauen auf den spuren ihrer geschichte ; Preface to a new edition of Need : A chorale for black woman voices ; Poet as teacher-human as poet-teacher as human ; Poetry makes something happen ; My mother's mortar -- Pt. III: Difference and survival. Difference and survival : an address at Hunter College ; The first black feminist retreat : July 6, 1977 ; When will the ignorance end? : keynote speech at the National Third World Gay and Lesbian Conference, October 13, 1979 ; An address delivered as part of the "litany of commitment" at the March on Washington, August 27, 1983 ; Commencement address : Oberlin College, May 29, 1989 ; There is no hierarchy of oppression ; What is at stake in lesbian and gay publishing today : the Bill Whitehead Award ceremony, 1990 ; Is your hair still political? -- Pt. IV: Reflections. Audre Lord : my shero, my teacher, my sister friend / Johnnetta Betsch Cole ; Audre's voice / Alice Walker ; Lorde : the imagination of justice / bell hooks ; Remembering Audre Lorde / Gloria I. Joseph ; Epilogue : bearing witness : the legacy of Audre Lorde / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- Chronology. |
| Awards |
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book, 2010. |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Lesbianism.
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| Added Author |
Byrd, Rudolph P.
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Cole, Johnnetta B.
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Guy-Sheftall, Beverly.
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| ISBN |
9780195341485 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0195341481 hardcover alkaline paper |
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