by Audre Lorde
First published 1984
Audre Lorde's voice rings clear in this collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984. She explores the roots of her intellectual development, illuminating her deep concerns about empowering minority women writers and the necessity of understanding difference—in sex, race, and economic status. Lorde's poems and essays in Sister Outsider stress the continuity between her emerging identity and the geographical and intellectual links to her African homeland of Dahomey. Her clear, unflinching words give voice to her longstanding themes of self-acceptance and the absolute need for marginalized women to claim their power.
Genres: essays, literary-criticism, gender-studies, feminism, african-american, non-fiction
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: marginalized-voices
Setting: Dahomey
192 pages · Paperback · Crossing Press