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Zami : A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde

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ISBN | 9780241351086 |
EAN | 9780241351086 |
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.
Product details
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics (5 July 2018)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0241351081
- ISBN-13: 978-0241351086
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm