I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

• Other Authors Rudolph P. Byrd (Editor), Johnnetta Betsch Cole (Editor), Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor)
• Title

  I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde

• Date 2011
• ISBN 0199846456
• Publisher New York, NY: Oxford University Press
• Description 304 p; 9.25 in
• Language English
• Collections Residency Collection
• Summary

  I Am Your Sister is a collection of Lorde's non-fiction prose, written between 1976 and 1990, and it introduces new perspectives on the depth and range of Lorde's intellectual interests and her commitments to progressive social change. Presented here, for the first time in print, is a major body of Lorde's speeches and essays, along with the complete text of A Burst of Light and Lorde's landmark prose works Sister Outsider and The Cancer Journals. Together, these writings reveal Lorde's commitment to a radical course of thought and action, situating her works within the women's, gay and lesbian, and African American Civil Rights movements. They also place her within a continuum of black feminists, from Sojourner Truth, to Anna Julia Cooper, Amy Jacques Garvey, Lorraine Hansberry, and Patricia Hill Collins. I Am Your Sister concludes with personal reflections from Alice Walker, Gloria Joseph, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and bell hooks on Lorde's political and social commitments and the indelibility of her writings for all who are committed to a more equitable society. (Oxford University Press)
  Series Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities

• Tags African American literature, Black Feminism, Black Studies, Feminism and Feminist theory