Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1625341385 ISBN 13: 9781625341389

Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015

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Among the most influential and insightful thinkers of her generation, Audre Lorde (1934--1992) inspired readers and activists through her poetry, autobiography, essays, and her political action. Most scholars have situated her work within the context of the women's, gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within the United States. However, Lorde forged coalitions with women in Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa, and twenty years after her passing, these alliances remain largely undocumented and unexplored. Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies is the first book to systematically document and thoroughly investigate Lorde's influence beyond the United States. Arranged in three thematically interrelated sections -- Archives, Connections, and Work -- the volume brings together scholarly essays, interviews, Lorde's unpublished speech about Europe, and personal reflections and testimonials from key figures throughout the world. Using a range of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors assess the reception, translation, and circulation of Lorde's writing and activism within different communities, audiences, and circles. They also shed new light on the work Lorde inspired across disciplinary borders. In addition the volume editors, contributors include Sarah Cefai, Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck, Paul M. Farber, Tiffany N. Florvil, Katharina Gerund, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Gloria Joseph, Jackie Kay, Marion Kraft, Christiana Lambrinidis, Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli, Rina Nissim, Chantal Oakes, Lester C. Olson, Pratibha Parmar, Peggy Piesche, Dagmar Schultz, Tamara Lea Spira, and Gloria Wekker.

Biografía del autor:

Stella Bolaki is lecturer in American literature at the University of Kent, UK and author of Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction. Sabine Broeck is professor of American studies at the University of Bremen in Germany and author of White Amnesia --Black Memory?: American Women's Writing and History.

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• Verlag: University of Massachusetts Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1625341385
• ISBN 13: 9781625341389
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Herausgeber: Bolaki Stella, Broeck Sabine