Research Catalog

Title

Audre Lorde's transnational legacies / edited by Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck.

Publication

Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bolaki, Stella
• Bröck-Sallah, Sabine, 1954-

Description

xii, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Although most scholars situate her work within the context of the women's, gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within the United States, Audre Lorde (1934-1992) forged coalitions with women in Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies is the first book to sysmatically 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sections - Archives, Connections, and Work - the volume brings together scholarly essays, interviews, Lorde's unpublished speech about Europe, and personal reflections and testimonials from key figures throughout the world.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. -- from back cover.

Subject

• Lorde, Audre > Criticism and interpretation
• Lorde, Audre > Influence
• Lorde, Audre
• Women authors, Black > United States
• Lesbian authors > United States
• Women poets
• American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
• Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The dream of Europe: remarks / Audre Lorde -- Audre Lord--the Berlin years, 1984-1992: transnational experiences, the making of a film, and its reception / Dagmar Schultz -- Bonds of sisterhood--breaking of silences: an interview with Audre Lorde / Marion Kraft -- Naming ourselves as Black women in Europe: an African American-German and Afro-Dutch conversation / Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck and Gloria Wekker -- Frontiers: an interview with Audre Lorde / Pratibha Parmar and Jackie Kay -- Audre Lorde and her French-speaking readers / Rina Nissim -- Finding my sisters: Audre Lorde and Black women in Switzerland / Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli -- Audre Lorde's relationship and connections with South African women / Gloria I. Joseph -- Sisterhood as performance in Audre Lorde's public advocacy / Lester C. Olson -- Transracial feminist alliances?: Audre Lorde and West German women / Katharina Gerund -- Emotional connections: Audre Lorde and Black German women / Tiffany N. Florvil -- "I cross her borders at midnight": Audre Lorde's Berlin revisions / Paul M. Farber -- "But we are not the same": generating a critical poetics of diaspora / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- The geopolitics of the erotic: Audre Lorde's Mexico and the decolonization of the revolutionary imagination / Tamara Lea Spira -- The critical feelings of Audre Lorde from the standpoint of an academic minor / Sarah Cefai -- Audre Lorde and what remains / Chantal Oakes -- The cicadas of courage: let us perform Audre Lorde / Christiana Lambrinidis -- Inscribing the past--anticipating the future: Audre Lorde and the Black women's movement in Germany / Peggy Piesche.

Call Number

Sc E 16-737

ISBN

• 9781625341389 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1625341385 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781625341396 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1625341393 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015009737

OCLC

898222293

Title

Audre Lorde's transnational legacies / edited by Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck.

Publisher

Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bolaki, Stella, editor.

Bröck-Sallah, Sabine, 1954- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-737