QUOTED
POETRY
- From a Land Where Other People Live
From a Land Where Other People Live shows Lorde's personal struggles with identity and anger at social injustice. The volume deals with themes of anger, loneliness, and injustice, as well as what it means to be a Black woman, mother, friend, and lover.
(Wikipedia) - The Marvelous Arithmetic's of Distance
This collection, 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992, is the final volume by "a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives,” in the words of Adrienne Rich.
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NON-FICTION
- The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals is a book of non-fiction by poet and activist Audre Lorde. It deals with her struggle with breast cancer and relates it to her strong advocacy and identity in certain social issues such as lesbian, civil rights, and feminist issues.
(Wikipedia) - A Burst of Light
Published in 1989, this collection of essays was written by Audre Lorde as she was dying of cancer. - Sister Outsider
Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change.
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INTERVIEWS
- Above the Wind: An Interview with Audre LordeRowell, Charles H., and Audre Lorde. “Above the Wind: An Interview with Audre Lorde.” Callaloo, vol. 23, no. 1, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 52–63.
- An Interview with Audre LordeLorde, Audre, and Adrienne Rich. "An Interview with Audre Lorde." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 6.4 (1981): 713-736.
ESSAYS
- The Uses of AngerLorde, Audre. “The Uses of Anger.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 1/2, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1997, pp. 278–85.
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LITERATURE DATABASES
- Alexander Street LiteratureThis is a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender.
- Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry OnlineThis database contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 citations
- Films on DemandThese videos cover American Literature.
- Gale LiteratureThis database brings together many Literature databases.
- Gale: LitFinderHere you can find access to short stories, speeches, and plays.
- JSTORThis a huge database covering the humanities with access to very many academic journals and more.
- Project MuseThis database is a provider of digital humanities and social science content. It has access to academic journals and books.
- Scribner Writers SeriesThis includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres.
- Twayne Author SeriesHere you can find biographical information and literary criticism about world authors and their notable literary works.
- Twentieth-Century African American PoetryThis is a source for modern and contemporary African American poetry
- Women Writers OnlineThis is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University.