Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
Autor de Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sobre El Autor
An African American lesbian feminist critic and writer, Lorde was born in Harlem and educated at National University of Mexico, Hunter College, and Columbia University. She married in 1962 and divorced in 1970, after having two children. Lorde first came to critical attention with her poetry. Her mostrar más first poem was published in Seventeen magazine while she was in high school; it had been rejected by her high school newspaper because it was "too romantic" (Lorde considered her "mature" poetry, which focuses on her lesbian relationships, to be romantic also). Other early poems were published in many different journals, many of them under the pseudonym Rey Domini. Her first volume of poetry, "The First Cities," was published in 1968. Lorde then quit her job as head librarian at a school in New York City in order to devote her time to teaching and writing. She was a professor of English at Hunter College from 1980 until her untimely death from cancer in 1992. Although many of Lorde's poems are about love, many are about anger, particularly anger about racism, sexism, and homophobia in America. "The Brown Menace or Poem to the Survival of Roaches" likens African Americans to cockroaches---hated, feared, and poisoned by whites but survivors nevertheless. Other poems express a daughter's anger toward her mother; still others eschew anger for affirmation and inspiration, which are represented as coming from lesbian love and traditional African myths because, as Lorde has said, "the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house." Lorde is also well known for her prose. Her courageous account of her struggle with breast cancer and the mastectomy that she underwent is movingly chronicled in "The Cancer Journals" (1980), her first major prose publication. "Zami, a New Spelling of My Name" (1982) is, in Lorde's words, a "biomythography," combining history, biography, and myth. In "Zami," Lorde focuses on her developing lesbian identity and her response to racism in the white feminist and gay communities, and to sexism and homophobia in the African American community. Lorde's critical essays, collected in "Sister/Outsider" (1984) and "A Burst of Light "(1988), have been quite influential, particularly "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," in which she discusses the relationship of poetry to politics and the erotic. Lorde was the recipient of several grants---from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1968 and 1981 and from the Creative Artists Public Service in 1972---as well as the Borough of Manhattan President's Award for Literary Excellence in 1987. She was also nominated for the National Book Award for poetry in 1974 for her third volume of verse, "From a Land Where Other People Live"(1973). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Audre Lorde
Apartheid U.S.A. / Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties (1986) 9 copias
Poetry Is Not a Luxury 5 copias
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde — Autor — 5 copias
Dzienniki raka 1 copia
Hvem sa det var enkelt 1 copia
Irmã Marginal 1 copia
New Year´s Day 1 copia
Entre Nós 1 copia
Audre Lorde 1 copia
Lorde, Audre Archive 1 copia
Shorelines 1 copia
Hanging Fire {poem} 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Lorde, Audre
- Nombre legal
- Lorde, Audrey Geraldine (birth name)
- Otros nombres
- Adisa, Gamba
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1934-02-18
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1992-11-17
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
Harlem, New York, USA - Lugar de fallecimiento
- St. Croix, Virgin Islands
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA (birth)
St. Croix, Virgin Islands (death)
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico - Educación
- Hunter College High School
Hunter College
National University of Mexico
Columbia University (Masters/Library science) - Ocupaciones
- librarian
activist
poet
essayist - Relaciones
- Clayton, Frances (partner until 1989)
Joseph, Gloria (partner 1989 - 1992) - Premios y honores
- Publishing Triangle (Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1992)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1994)
Honorary Doctorate of Literature, Hunter College (1991)
Walt Whitman Citation of Merit (1991)
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Oberlin College (1990)
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Haverford College (1989) (mostrar todos 8)
Manhattan Borough President's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1988)
New York State Poet (1991-1993)
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Su espléndida poética nos sumerge en su proceso de mastectomía. En las notas del diario personal que lleva en ese tiempo de su vida, Audre desovilla un dolor lacerante, nos invita a no quitarle la mirada al sufrimiento, a ese que habita en cada una de nosotras en forma de memoria-cuerpo. Y se zambulle en el análisis de lo que este cáncer le regala, como una oportunidad: acercarse a las potencias del autocuidado personal y colectivo, del cuerpo como territorio político, de la importancia de no ignorar lo que nos distingue como mujeres feministas, del poder de lo erótico, del amor lésbico y de lo indispensable que es la contención de un cálido círculo en el cuidado de un cuerpo enfermo.
Entrar en este diario es acompañarla en su incesante lucha desbordada de poesía: memorias a veces agónicas, pero cargadas de una profunda dulzura y amor hacia la vida, de una espiritualidad que se va reconociendo cada vez más con sus raíces afrocaribeñas, una conexión llena de fuerza y sabiduría que la sostiene hasta el final de sus días.… (más)