Sister Outsider

"Sister Outsider" er en samling af Audre Lordes klassiske og betydningsfulde essays og taler fra 1976-1984, hvor hun med udgangspunkt i egne erfaringer udforsker emner som racisme, sexisme, og homofobi. Audre Lorde var en forfatter, feminist og aktivist kendt for at betegne sig selv som en: Sort, lesbisk, mor, kriger og poet. "Sister Outsider" indeholder 15 af hendes essentielle essays og taler, som hun skrev i årene fra 1976-1984. Samlingen har haft en afgørende betydning for nutidens feministiske teorier, og udforsker stadig aktuelle tematikker som sort feminisme, ligestilling, politibrutalitet, sexisme og racisme. Det er en række bevægende, filosofiske og direkte tekster om det hvide patriarkalske systems undetrykkelse og hendes håb for en ligestillet og forenet fremtid.

"Sister Outsider" er en samling af Audre Lordes klassiske og betydningsfulde essays og taler fra 1976-1984, hvor hun med udgangspunkt i egne erfaringer udforsker emner som racisme, sexisme, og homofobi. Audre Lorde var en forfatter, feminist og aktivist kendt for at betegne sig selv som en: Sort, lesbisk, mor, kriger og poet. "Sister Outsider" indeholder 15 af hendes essentielle essays og taler, som hun skrev i årene fra 1976-1984. Samlingen har haft en afgørende betydning for nutidens feministiske teorier, og udforsker stadig aktuelle tematikker som sort feminisme, ligestilling, politibrutalitet, sexisme og racisme. Det er en række bevægende, filosofiske og direkte tekster om det hvide patriarkalske systems undetrykkelse og hendes håb for en ligestillet og forenet fremtid.

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 . . . "

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 . . . "