内容简介

SISTER OUTSIDER presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, offering a message of struggle but also of hope?one that still resonates with us after more than 20 years. This commemorative edition is, in Lorde's own words, a call to ?never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. . . .?

作者简介

Audre Lorde is a revolutionary Black feminist. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines. During this time, she was politically active in civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements. Her first volume of poetry, The First Cities (1968), was publi...

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Torefusetobeconsciousofwhatwearefeelingatanytime,howevercomfortablethatmightseem,istodenyalargepartoftheexperienceandtoallowourselvestobereducedtothepornographic,theabused,andabsurd.

——引自第59页

BlackandThirdWorldpeopleareexpectedtoeducatewhitepeopleastoourhumanity.Womenareexpectedtoeducatemen.Lesbiansandgaymenareexpectedtoeducatetheheterosexualworld.Theoppressorsmaintaintheirpositionandevaderesponsibilityfortheirownactions.Thereisacon-stantdrainofenergywhichmightbebetterusedinredefiningourselvesanddevisingrealisticscenariosforalteringthepresentandconstructingthefuture.

——引自第115页