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Sister Outsider

其他書名	Essays and Speeches
出版	Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, 2007-08-01
主題	Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian StudiesSocial Science / Feminism & Feminist TheorySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
ISBN	15809118629781580911863
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OixDJLFjycsC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.

“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York Times

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 poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.

These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . ”