Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

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Synopsis
A Time Must-Read Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde’s teachings on “the creative power of difference” may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today. Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. Possibly the focus on Lorde’s quotable essays, to the neglect of her complex poems, has led us to ignore her deep engagement with the natural world, the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For her, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be of earth on earth, and how to survive—to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands. In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde. Her life and work become more than a sound bite; they become a cosmic force, teaching us the grand contingency of life together on earth.
Copyright:
2023

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
528 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780374603281
Related ISBNs:
9780374603274
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyrighted By:
the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by permission of Harold Ober Associates and International Literary Properties LLC.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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