Zami, a new spelling of my name (Crossing Press feminist series)

Lorde, Audre

ISBN 10: 0895941236 / ISBN 13: 9780895941237

Published by Crossing Press, 1982

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zami, a new spelling of my name (Crossing Press feminist series)
• Publisher: Crossing Press
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895941236
• ISBN 13: 9780895941237
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

"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

From the Back Cover

“Zami. Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers.”

In this classic autobiography Audre Lorde combines elements of history, biography and myth to tell her own story. A young black girl grows up in thirties Harlem, a teenager lives through Pearl Harbour, a young woman experiences McCarthyism in fifties Greenwich Village. In and out of this lyrical chronicle move the women – mothers, lovers, friends – who are zami: ‘Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon on me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me – so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognise her.”

“Lorde is a convincing, powerful writer. Her prose speaks directly to the heart of racism, self-acceptance, mother- and womanhood”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Listen to this rich and raging voice”
ADRIENNE RICH