Download PDF Sister Outsider Essays and Speeches Crossing Press Feminist Series Audre Lorde Cheryl Clarke 9781580911863 Books
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.
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...”
“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.” —New York Times
Download PDF Sister Outsider Essays and Speeches Crossing Press Feminist Series Audre Lorde Cheryl Clarke 9781580911863 Books
"This book pieces together many sources that create a fairly comprehensive picture of Audre Lorde. She makes one of the more compelling cases for why anger should be in the arsenal of minority-status groups, which is something I'm always struggling with in feminism, Black feminism, et al."
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Sister Outsider Essays and Speeches Crossing Press Feminist Series Audre Lorde Cheryl Clarke 9781580911863 Books Reviews
- Reading Audre Lorde in 2017 is both a revelation and a tragedy. A revelation because her writing is fresh, her language incomparable, her ideas transgressive, and her suggestions helpful and full of light. A tragedy because so little has changed since late 1970s-early 1980s for women, for people of color, for the 99-ers, in the school to prison pipeline, in the patterns of privilege, in the violence, in the internalized misogyny and racism. Audre Lorde was, truly, as great and passionate a critic of modernity as James Baldwin, and I sincerely hope that she gets the audience, too, albeit posthumously.
What a great woman! - As a Black female living in America, I could relate to a lot of what she said and she raised a lot of important points. Most importantly, she made me think. I enjoyed reading it. Unfortunately, there were a few parts that I had trouble understanding so I need to read it again, but the book is very fantastic. She wrote wonderful letters, speeches, and essays. I'm looking forward to reading her poems. 'Definitely recommended.
- This collection of prose by Audre Lorde is well worth reading though it is certainly dated in a literal sense. That is, these pieces date back to the 1970s and 1980s or earlier and refer to specific events and conditions of those times. But what’s both fresh and disappointing about her work is how little things have changed. I am glad I read this but wish the rage she articulates didn’t resonate so strongly decades later.
- 4.5 A work I'm glad to have read in its entirety, after only having read selected essays. "The Uses of Anger", "Uses of the Erotic", "Poetry is Not a Luxury" (esp for me, so alienated from poetry) in particular will stay with me for a long time. Sad to see how so many of these issues, especially regarding the relationship between white women and black women, have seemingly not progressed one bit.
- I cannot offer high enough praise for this work. It is an amazing collection. The pieces are thought-provoking, deeply moving, inspiring and so well written. The insights it offers are not to missed. I couldn't stop talking about the book and the author and the important things she has to say. The impact is formed and heightened by the beautiful poetic composition and the direct and fearless way Lorde speaks. This book is beautiful, but it is also important, and worthwhile.
- This is much more than a book, a collection of writings. It's an experience more like surviving a traumatic event, seeing a deep and distressing movie or having a long and difficult talk with someone who has been oppressed from all sides. It accomplishes that which no other book I have ever read has done. Aside from the profound personal impact it has had on me, it details a horror story of a life lived with incomparable insight into humanity as well as with courage which faces that horror every day. I bought and read the book based on the other reviews above. They are all correct, but the praise this book deserves is understated. It may well be the greatest book of psychological insight and advice ever written. Only Dostoevsky's works compare. Lorde defies all the labels she and others use to describe her. This is the most human of all books because it stares the weaknesses we all share right in the face and finds ways to fight if not conquer them as well as pointing out strategies that are counterproductive. Lorde allows the reader to get inside her skin like no other writer, and for the first time ever, made me feel the anger, terror, fear, helplessness I have sensed in many if not all black people. And yet her greatest criticisms are not of whites, but especially of her black sisters and then her brothers. She clearly does not set herself apart because she knows she has had "my boot on a sister's face". Richard Adams wrote a story called "The Hole in the Sky". Most people never see it, but this book describes best of all what makes up that hole and what it feels like to see it.
- This book pieces together many sources that create a fairly comprehensive picture of Audre Lorde. She makes one of the more compelling cases for why anger should be in the arsenal of minority-status groups, which is something I'm always struggling with in feminism, Black feminism, et al.
- I have searched long and hard for a book that reflects my search for myself that was hidden beneath half century of self hate and fear of being the outsider. Audre's book spoke to and from my heart.
I recommend this book to women of color who know there is a deeper, more eternal power within them that must be tapped into for our survival as women.
