A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

by Audre Lorde

Overview

Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to thoughts on lesbian sexuality and African-American identity in a straight white man's world, Lorde's voice remains enduringly relevant in today's political landscape.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798890961310
Publisher:	Lushena Books
Publication date:	06/29/2023
Pages:	108
Sales rank:	264,618
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

A great American theorist of race, sexuality, gender, living, and dying, poet and activist Audre Lorde (1934–1992) created a body of work that was ahead of its time in its embrace of intersectionality. Her debut poetry collection, 1973's From a Land Where Other People Live, was nominated for the National Book Award and she was named New York State's Poet Laureate and received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Other notable works include The Cancer Journals, her novel Zami, and the collection Sister Outsider. A member of the Black Arts Movement and a prominent advocate of the Afro-German identity during her years studying in Berlin, Lorde's writings have become increasingly influential since her death in 1992 of liver cancer.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities
Apartheid U.S.A.
Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986
A Burst of Light: Living With Cancer