Audre Lorde Sister Outsider review, recensie en informatie boek uit 1984 met essays en speeches van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster, professor en feministe. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de inhoud van het boek van de Amerikaans-Caribische schrijfster Audre Lorde. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. In 2020 is de Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschenen met de gelijknamige titel Sister Outsider.
Audre Lorde Sister Outsider review, recensie en informatie
- “The truth of her writing is as necessary today as it’s ever been.” (Guardian)
Sister Outsider
- Auteur: Audre Lorde (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: feministische non-fictie uit 1984
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Omvang: 208 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: Sister Outsider
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek met essays en speeches van Audre Lorde
The woman’s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.
The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those ‘outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women’. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose – essays, speeches, letters, interviews – explores race, sexuality, poetry, friendship, the erotic and the need for female solidarity, and includes her landmark piece ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’.
Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist – or, as she famously put it, ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Born in New 
York in 17 November 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died of cancer on 17 November 1992 in Saint Croix, Virgin Islands,, aged 58.