One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World 'If I didn't define
myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for
me and eaten aliveA little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem,
weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and
loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from
Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is
Audre Lorde's story.
A rapturous, life-affirming
autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet',
it changed the literary landscape. 'Her work shows us new ways to
imagine the world ... so many themes of Audre's work have endured' Renni
Eddo Lodge, author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About
Race'I came across Audre Lorde's Zami, and I cried to think how lucky I
was to have found her.
Zami : A New Spelling of my Name - Audre Lorde
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