Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
Autor/a de Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Obres de Audre Lorde
Apartheid U.S.A. / Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties (1986) 9 exemplars
Poetry Is Not a Luxury 5 exemplars
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde — Autor — 5 exemplars
A New Spelling of My Name: Second Edition 2 exemplars
Dzienniki raka 1 exemplars
Hvem sa det var enkelt 1 exemplars
Irmã Marginal 1 exemplars
New Year´s Day 1 exemplars
The Uses of Anger Women Responding to Racism 1 exemplars
Entre Nós 1 exemplars
Audre Lorde 1 exemplars
Lorde, Audre Archive 1 exemplars
Shorelines 1 exemplars
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism 1 exemplars
Hanging Fire {poem} 1 exemplars
aus der ramasuri no.1 ! Vom Nutzen unserer Wut 1 exemplars
Obres associades
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) — Col·laborador — 1,311 exemplars
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 513 exemplars
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present (1994) — Col·laborador — 446 exemplars
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Col·laborador — 231 exemplars
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Col·laborador — 201 exemplars
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Col·laborador — 157 exemplars
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Col·laborador — 121 exemplars
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Col·laborador — 120 exemplars
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Col·laborador — 99 exemplars
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Col·laborador — 88 exemplars
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Col·laborador — 87 exemplars
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories (1994) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Col·laborador — 69 exemplars
She Rises Like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets (1989) — Col·laborador — 67 exemplars
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community [1985 film] (1997) — Self — 54 exemplars
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008) — Col·laborador — 50 exemplars
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology (2024) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Lorde, Audre
- Nom oficial
- Lorde, Audrey Geraldine (birth name)
- Altres noms
- Adisa, Gamba
- Data de naixement
- 1934-02-18
- Data de defunció
- 1992-11-17
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
Harlem, New York, USA - Lloc de defunció
- St. Croix, Virgin Islands
- Llocs de residència
- 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 - Educació
- Hunter College High School
Hunter College
National University of Mexico
Columbia University (Masters/Library science) - Professions
- librarian
activist
poet
essayist - Relacions
- Clayton, Frances (partner until 1989)
Joseph, Gloria (partner 1989 - 1992) - Premis i honors
- 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) (mostra-les totes 8)
Manhattan Borough President's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1988)
New York State Poet (1991-1993)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 60
- També de
- 81
- Membres
- 8,025
- Popularitat
- #3,020
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 85
- ISBN
- 136
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 37