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Zami : a new spelling of my name : a biomythography

Lorde, Audre2018
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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.
Author:
Lorde, Audre, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Classics, 2018.
Collation:
1 online resource.
Notes:
Previously issued in print: Watertown: Persephone Press, 1982.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 13, 2022).
Linking notes:
Print version :
ISBN:
9780241351093 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
BRN:
395143
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