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Zami: a new spelling of my name : a biomythography
- Title
- Zami: a new spelling of my name : a biomythography / Audre Lord.
- Author
- Lorde, Audre
- Publication
- London : Penguin Classics, 2018.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFD 18-5018 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 303 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships -- suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone -- until she emerges into happiness: an oasis of friendship in Washington Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk. This is Audre Lorde's story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich with poetry and fierce emotional power.
- Series Statement
- Modern classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin modern classics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographical fiction.
- Biography.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-5018
- ISBN
- 9780241351086
- 0241351081
- OCLC
- 1048604387
- Author
- Lorde, Audre, author.
- Title
- Zami: a new spelling of my name : a biomythography / Audre Lord.
- Publisher
- London : Penguin Classics, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Modern classicsPenguin modern classics.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-5018