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Zami

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 024135109X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Zami written by Audre Lorde and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : Crossing Press
ISBN 13 : 0307780813
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name written by Audre Lorde and published by Crossing Press. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.”—Off Our Backs

Skye Papers

Author : Jamika Ajalon
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1952177103
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Skye Papers written by Jamika Ajalon and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentysomething and restless, Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British traveler, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New York. The three recognize each other as kindred spirits—Black, punk, whimsical, revolutionary—and fall in together, leading Skye on an unlikely adventure across the Atlantic. They live a glorious, subterranean existence in 1990s London: making multimedia art, throwing drug-fueled parties, and eking out a living by busking in Tube stations, until their existence is jeopardized by the rise of CCTV and policing. In fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon's debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it means to come terms with queerness. Skye Papers is an imaginative, episodic group portrait of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color—and of the fraught, dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.

Zami ; Sister Outsider ; Undersong

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Zami ; Sister Outsider ; Undersong written by Audre Lorde and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love War Stories

Author : Ivelisse Rodriguez
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1936932288
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Love War Stories written by Ivelisse Rodriguez and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Arrests the heart with its stunning exploration of women who are put through a kind of hell in their determination to find true love . . . extraordinary.” —Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES Award Best Book/Most Anticipated Book/Recommended Read of 2018: Cosmopolitan.com, The Root, Electric Literature, Bustle, Book Riot, PEN America, PopSugar, The Rumpus, B*tch, Remezcla, Mitú, and other publications. Puerto Rican girls are brought up to want one thing: true love. Yet they are raised by women whose lives are marked by broken promises, grief, and betrayal. While some believe that they’ll be the ones to finally make it work, others swear not to repeat cycles of violence. This collection documents how these “love wars” break out across generations as individuals find themselves caught in the crosshairs of romance, expectations, and community. “A tough smart dazzling debut by a tough smart dazzling writer. Ivelisse Rodriguez is a revelation.” —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of This Is How You Lose Her “[An] exceptional collection of short stories . . . Filled with memorable characters and sharp writing, this book will leave you breathless.” —Bustle “Rodriguez conceives exquisite misery and makes alchemy of hopelessness in her debut short story collection.” —Electric Literature “[A] perceptive exploration of love, heartbreak, and womanhood.” —The Seattle Review of Books “This reviewer kept returning to [these stories] for their freshness, urgency, and sheer heart.” —Library Journal “Throughout the collection, Rodriguez’s prose pulls you in, and her characters will stay with you even when the stories are only a few pages long.” —BUST “Both heartbreaking and insightful.” —Publishers Weekly “Stunning.” —MyDomaine

Letter To My Daughter

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748122354
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Letter To My Daughter written by Maya Angelou and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of wisdom and life lessons, from the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to my Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: it's part guidebook, part memoir, part poetry - and pure delight. 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393254402
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde written by Audre Lorde and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-02-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country's most influential poets. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a black, lesbian feminist identity took place in these poems, and set the terms—beautifully, forcefully—for contemporary multicultural and pluralist debate."—Publishers Weekly "This is an amazing collection of poetry by . . . one of our best contemporary poets. . . . Her poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving."—Chuckanut Reader Magazine "What a deep pleasure to encounter Audre Lorde's most potent genius . . . you will welcome the sheer accessibility and the force and beauty of this volume."—Out Magazine

Conversations with Audre Lorde

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578066438
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Audre Lorde written by Audre Lorde and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a "Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother," but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of the Harlem-born author and activist. She was also a rebellious child of Caribbean parents, a mastectomy patient, a blue-collar worker, a college professor, a student of African mythology, an experimental autobiographer in her book titled Zami, a critic of imperialism, and a charismatic orator. Despite her intense engagement with the major social movements of her time, Lorde told interviewers that she was always an outsider, a position of weakness and of strength. Most of her schoolmates were white. She married a white legal-aid attorney, and after their divorce she was the partner of a white psychologist for many years. These intimate alliances with whites caused some African Americans of both genders to question the depth of her solidarity. Lorde expressed distrust of some white feminists and charged that they lacked real understanding of African American struggles. Writing proved to be her powerful weapon against injustice. Painfully aware that differences could provoke prejudice and violence, she promoted the bridging of barriers. These interviews reveal the sense of displacement that made Lorde a champion of the outcast and the forgotten--whether in New York, Mississippi, Berlin, or Soweto.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Author : Ocean Vuong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525562044
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous written by Ocean Vuong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!

The Days of Afrekete

Author : Asali Solomon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721904
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Days of Afrekete written by Asali Solomon and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I didn't feel like I was reading this novel—I felt like I was living it.” —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House From award-winning author Asali Solomon, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two women at midlife who rediscover themselves—and perhaps each other, inspired by Mrs. Dalloway, Sula, and Audre Lorde's Zami Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion—her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state legislature—but what better way to thank key supporters than a feast? Liselle was never sure about her husband becoming a politician, never sure about the limelight, never sure about the life of fundraising and stump speeches. Then an FBI agent calls to warn her that Winn might be facing corruption charges. An avalanche of questions tumbles around her: Is it possible he’s guilty? Who are they to each other; who have they become? How much of herself has she lost—and was it worth it? And just this minute, how will she make it through this dinner party? Across town, Selena Octave is making her way through the same day, the same way she always does—one foot in front of the other, keeping quiet and focused, trying not to see the terrors all around her. Homelessness, starving children, the very living horrors of history that made America possible: these and other thoughts have made it difficult for her to live an easy life. The only time she was ever really happy was with Liselle, back in college. But they’ve lost touch, so much so that when they ran into each other at a drugstore just after Obama was elected president, they barely spoke. But as the day wears on, memories of Liselle begin to shift Selena’s path. Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, as well as Audre Lorde’s Zami, Asali Solomon’s The Days of Afrekete is a deft, expertly layered, naturally funny, and deeply human examination of two women coming back to themselves at midlife. It is a watchful celebration of our choices and where they take us, the people who change us, and how we can reimagine ourselves even when our lives seem set.

The First Cities

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The First Cities written by Audre Lorde and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Trial of God

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805210539
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Trial of God written by Elie Wiesel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1995-11-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) A Play by Elie Wiesel Translated by Marion Wiesel Introduction by Robert McAfee Brown Afterword by Matthew Fox Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination. Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage a mock trial of God instead, indicting Him for His silence in the face of evil. Berish, a latter-day Job, is ready to take on the role of prosecutor. But who will defend God? A mysterious stranger named Sam, who seems oddly familiar to everyone present, shows up just in time to volunteer. The idea for this play came from an event that Elie Wiesel witnessed as a boy in Auschwitz: “Three rabbis—all erudite and pious men—decided one evening to indict God for allowing His children to be massacred. I remember: I was there, and I felt like crying. But there nobody cried.” Inspired and challenged by this play, Christian theologians Robert McAfee Brown and Matthew Fox, in a new Introduction and Afterword, join Elie Wiesel in the search for faith in a world where God is silent.

Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta

Author : John Rollin Ridge
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806174811
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta written by John Rollin Ridge and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquin Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into state histories, sensationalized in books, poems, and articles throughout America, Spain, France, Chile, and Mexico, and made into a motion picture. The Ridge account is here reproduced from the only known copy of the first edition, owned by Thomas W. Streeter, of Morristown, New Jersey. According to it, the passionate, wronged Murieta organized an outlaw company numbering over 2,000 men, who for two years terrorized gold-rush Californians by kidnapping, bank robberies, cattle thefts, and murders. So bloodthirsty as to be considered five men, Joaquin was aided by several hardy subordinates, including the sadistic cutthroat, "Three-Fingered Jack." Finally, the state legislature authorized organization of the Mounted Rangers to capture the outlaws. The drama is fittingly climaxed by the ensuing chase, "good, gory" battle, and the shocking fate of the badmen.

Lavender Mansions

Author : Irene Zahava
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720300
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Lavender Mansions written by Irene Zahava and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Stambolian, Terri de la Peña, Audre Lorde, Paul Monette, Edmund White, and Jaime Manrique are just six of the writers represented in this collection of forty contemporary lesbian and gay short stories. Gathered together for the first time in one volume are writings by both lesbians and gay men who represent a multiplicity of ethnic and racial backgrounds. Irene Zahava has compiled a unique and necessary collection, selecting stories for their artistic power and for their treatment of topics that are significant in lesbian and gay life and politics today. An alternative thematic table of contents allows the reader to understand lesbian and gay life according to its most culturally and politically significant themes: childhood/growing up; coming out/finding community; families; oppression/resistance; bisexuality; relationships/friendships; AIDS; and aging/dying.

Undersong

Author : Audre Lorde
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393309751
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Undersong written by Audre Lorde and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1992 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features poems that affirm the conflicts, fears, and hopes of the poet in words conveying vision and courage

Dirty River

Author : Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551526018
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Dirty River written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home." Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

The Best Things

Author : Mel Giedroyc
Publisher : Review
ISBN 13 : 1472256247
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The Best Things written by Mel Giedroyc and published by Review. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HILARIOUS SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A big-hearted story of a family on the brink from the marvellous, much-loved Mel Giedroyc. 'Properly funny with a brilliant cast of characters' GRAHAM NORTON 'A real treat. I enjoyed it HUGELY' MARIAN KEYES 'Funny and fresh. No soggy bottoms here' CLARE MACKINTOSH __________ Sally Parker is searching for the hero inside herself. But TBH she just wants to lie down. Her husband Frank has lost his business, their home and their savings in one go. Her bank cards have been stopped. The kids are running wild. And now the bailiffs are at the door. What does a woman do when the bottom suddenly falls out? Will Sally Parker surprise everybody....most of all herself? __________ 'This book is a riot! Delicious in its detail' SOPHIE KINSELLA 'A stonking good read. Exactly like Mel herself: engaging, uproarious and gleeful' JO BRAND 'A warm, honest and humorous look at a family and what really matters in life. Brimming with hilarious scenes, it is also a redemptive book, and one of hope' WOMAN & HOME 'A warm contemporary fable bursting with colourful characters and comic energy' DAILY MAIL SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2021 REAL READERS ADORE THE BEST THINGS... 'A well written, warm hug of a read. Something much needed in these days of doom and gloom' 'This book is everything I would have expected from the wonderful Mel Giedroyc. Funny and touching*****' 'I could hear Mel reading this book! Terrific characters. Very entertaining *****' 'A lovely, warm cuddle of a book' 'One of the best things I've read this year. Please read it *****' 'I felt like Mel was reading this into my ear. I was left with the warm fuzzys at the end****' 'Would make a brilliant film or sitcom. The Parker family are a chaotic, loveable bunch' 'I zipped through it with many an accompanying titter, the occasional chortle and the odd unladylike snort. A nice piece of escapism, so needed at this time ****' 'Warm, interesting, clever and funny, as well as poignant at times. A brave heroine, a cast of strong characters and a page-turner of a story *****' 'Glorious storytelling, this is a rich comedic feast of domesticity. Excellent characters. Kept me gripped throughout. *****'