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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

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Author Biography

Name: Audre Lorde
Birth Date: February 18, 1934
Death Date: November 17, 1992
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet

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Biography of Audre Lorde
1295 words, approx. 4.3 pages
The African American poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992) wrote poetry exploring the relationships between lovers, children and parents, and friends in both a very personal and a socially relevant manner. She was a feminist poet who challenged racial and sexual...
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Biography of Audre (Geraldine) Lorde
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Audre Lorde is probably best known as a feminist poet; yet her contributions to the new black poetry movement cover a wide range of themes. Black pride, black love, and black survival in an urban environment are recurring motifs; and the image of the cit...


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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 autobiography by African American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls...


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New Internationalist
Zami: a new spelling of my name.
11/01/1996: 852 words, approx. 3 pages
'I HAVE often wondered why the farthest position always feels so right to me; why extremes, though difficult and sometimes painful to maintain, are always more comfortable,' writes Audre Lorde in the opening pages of Zami. This 'biomythography' tells the story of...
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Washington Jewish Week
A new name for my future
10/13/2005: 733 words, approx. 2 pages
I arrived to the United States from Odessa, Ukraine, on March 27, 2000, together with my father, mother and grandmother. I was 11 years old. The changes that I had to go through were extraordinary -- new culture, new language, new people, new environment,...
 


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Zami, the Spelling of My Name: Analysis and Interpretation
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Analyzes the autobiography Zami, The Spelling of My Name, by Audre Lourde. Examines Lourde's blind attitude on racism due to the sheltering of her parents.


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