156 research outputs found
Conversations with Audre Lorde
No full textAudre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother, but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of the Harlem-born author and activist. She was also a rebellious child of Caribbean parents, a mastectomy patient, a blue-collar worker, a college professor, a student of African mythology, an experimental autobiographer in her book titled Zami, a critic of imperialism, and a charismatic orator. Despite her intense engagement with the major social movements of her time, Lorde told interviewers that she was always an outsider, a position of weakness and of strength. Most of her schoolmates were white. She married a white legal-aid attorney, and after their divorce she was the partner of a white psychologist for many years. These intimate alliances with whites caused some African Americans of both genders to question the depth of her solidarity. Lorde expressed distrust of some white feminists and charged that they lacked real understanding of African American struggles. Writing proved to be her powerful weapon against injustice. Painfully aware that differences could provoke prejudice and violence, she promoted the bridging of barriers. These interviews reveal the sense of displacement that made Lorde a champion of the outcast and the forgotten--whether in New York, Mississippi, Berlin, or Soweto.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/1177/thumbnail.jp
Reviewed Work: Conversations with Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall
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Joan Wylie Hall teaches at the University of Mississippi and is the author of Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction (1993). In her latest project, Conversations with Audre Lorde, Hall compiles a range of primary documents that feature Lorde in various forms of conversation, during which she discusses her life and her work. The collection includes some of Lorde\u27s better-known interviews with such prominent literary figures as Charles Rowell, Adrienne Rich, and Claudia Tate. However, Hall also includes some more obscure documents, such as the transcription of a radio program aired in 1987 and translations of interviews originally recorded in German. Hall suggests that her anthology has been shaped by Lorde\u27s recurrent reference to the notion of displacement as a defining characteristic of Lorde\u27s life, and so readers may approach these conversations as Lorde\u27s efforts to traverse the numerous gaps that contribute to her status as an outsider
Referencing Audre Lorde
No full textThis chapter is close a reading and textual analysis of canonical texts, speeches, and archived audio recordings of Audre Lorde. It embraces Lorde’s many identities, including her identity as a librarian who chose to depart from the library as a means of survival. The author urges reference librarians to study Lorde’s example and learn from Lorde’s choice to act in a space where silence can be transformed into language and action. Acknowledgment of the limitations and opportunities that Lorde teaches us in reference service and institutional structures, may allow for librarians to move toward a realm of justice
Lorde, de João Gilberto Noll: imaginário e identidade
No full textThis article consists of an analysis of the novel Lorde (2014), by the author João Gilberto Noll, based on the theories of the imaginary, proposed by Gilbert Durand (2012), Chevalier and Gueerbrant (1991), and on the considerations of Stuart Hall and Tadeu Tomaz da Silva (2000) about the construction of identity. Noll\u27s literature presents, as one of its central themes, the conflicts in the identity construction of the subject, approaching the protagonists\u27 relationships with space, with others and with their own body. In Lorde, the protagonist, an unnamed Brazilian author, is invited to spend a season in the city of London, which triggers a series of identity issues. Faced with the condition of being a foreigner, conflicts with age and body, in a process of alterity, the protagonist has his identity reinvented, mixed with characters’, in addition to experiencing situations which, symbolically, mention the idea of rebirth.Este artigo consiste em uma análise do romance Lorde (2014), do autor João Gilberto Noll, fundamentada nas teorias do Imaginário, propostas por Gilbert Durand (2012), Chevalier e Gueerbrant (1991), e nas considerações de Stuart Hall e Tadeu Tomaz da Silva (2000) acerca da construção da identidade. A literatura de Noll apresenta, como um de seus temas centrais, os conflitos na construção identitária do sujeito, abordando as relações dos protagonistas com o espaço, com o outro e com o próprio corpo. Na narrativa Lorde, o protagonista, um autor brasileiro inominado, é convidado a passar uma temporada na cidade de Londres, o que desencadeia uma série de questões identitárias. Diante da condição de estrangeiro e dos conflitos com a idade e com o corpo, em um processo de alteridade, o protagonista tem sua identidade reinventada, mesclada a de outras personagens, além de vivenciar situações que, de modo simbólico, fazem menção à ideia de renascimento
Lorde, de João Gilberto Noll: imaginário e identidade
No full textThis article consists of an analysis of the novel Lorde (2014), by the author João Gilberto Noll, based on the theories of the imaginary, proposed by Gilbert Durand (2012), Chevalier and Gueerbrant (1991), and on the considerations of Stuart Hall and Tadeu Tomaz da Silva (2000) about the construction of identity. Noll's literature presents, as one of its central themes, the conflicts in the identity construction of the subject, approaching the protagonists' relationships with space, with others and with their own body. In Lorde, the protagonist, an unnamed Brazilian author, is invited to spend a season in the city of London, which triggers a series of identity issues. Faced with the condition of being a foreigner, conflicts with age and body, in a process of alterity, the protagonist has his identity reinvented, mixed with characters’, in addition to experiencing situations which, symbolically, mention the idea of rebirth.Este artigo consiste em uma análise do romance Lorde (2014), do autor João Gilberto Noll, fundamentada nas teorias do Imaginário, propostas por Gilbert Durand (2012), Chevalier e Gueerbrant (1991), e nas considerações de Stuart Hall e Tadeu Tomaz da Silva (2000) acerca da construção da identidade. A literatura de Noll apresenta, como um de seus temas centrais, os conflitos na construção identitária do sujeito, abordando as relações dos protagonistas com o espaço, com o outro e com o próprio corpo. Na narrativa Lorde, o protagonista, um autor brasileiro inominado, é convidado a passar uma temporada na cidade de Londres, o que desencadeia uma série de questões identitárias. Diante da condição de estrangeiro e dos conflitos com a idade e com o corpo, em um processo de alteridade, o protagonista tem sua identidade reinventada, mesclada a de outras personagens, além de vivenciar situações que, de modo simbólico, fazem menção à ideia de renascimento
Exploration of the Theory of Conversational Implicature in the Poems “Coal” and “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde
No full textA number of works have been done by scholars on the study and interpretation of Audre Lorde’s poems, especially through the lens of literary and critical analysis. However, Lorde’s poems have not been analyzed pragmatically. A lot may have been written about Lorde’s poetry, but there is absolutely no evidence of a pragmatics study of her work. Lorde is the author of many poems that have been studied in various theoretical dimensions, but none have been done with reference to their pragmatics implications. The problem which this research recognizes, therefore, is that Lorde’s poems, especially the those under the present study, have not been studied and interpreted using Grice’s theory of Conversational Implicature (Cooperative Principle) which comprised the four maxims: the maxims of Quantity, Quality, Manner and Relation. This study seeks to discover the extent to which these maxims could be applied to the reading of these selected poems of Lorde. It also seeks to ascertain the degree to which Lorde’s selected poems violate or adhere to these maxims. The study has found that Audre Lorde in some of her poems, violates the maxims as well as adheres to it both in the same breath.
Keywords: Conversational Implicature, Pragmatics, Grice, Poems, Maxims, Cooperative Principles, Audre Lorde, Contex
L’epistemologia feminista d’Audre Lorde (1934-1992) i la teoria Queer en la pedagogia social del segle xxi
No full textEl present article aborda el problema polític i educatiu del dolor utilitzant l’hermenèutica queer/crip i l’exemple biogràfic de lluita encarnada per Audre Lorde. Es planteja el potencial semàntic del dolor i les obertures socials que pot impulsar la seva (re)apropiació per part de grups subalterns. És a dir, s’efectua un exercici hermenèutic que posa de costat el feminisme d’Audre Lorde, la teoria queer/crip i l’ús de l’experiència del dolor i la malaltia com a fenòmens polititzables. S’entoma l’experiència encarnada de subalternitat de Lorde, l’hermenèutica queer/crip del dolor, laseva relació amb el discurs de l’autora i la inscripció d’aquesta posició en la pedagogia social del segle xxi.Paraules clau: política del cos, dolor, teoria Queer, teoria Crip.This article deals with the political and educational problem of pain by using the queer/crip hermeneutics and the biographical example of struggle embodied by Audre Lorde. We consider the semantic potential of pain and the social openings that may boost its (re)appropriation by subaltern groups. That is, a hermeneutic exercise is conducted which brings together the feminism of Audre Lorde, the queer/crip theory and the use of the experience of pain and disease as politicizable phenomena. We take up Lorde’s embodied experience of subalternity, the queer/crip hermeneutics of pain, their relationship with the author’s discourse and the inclusion of this stance in the social pedagogy of the 21st century.Key words: Body Bildung, pain, Queer theory, Crip theory.El artículo aborda el problema político y educativo del dolor utilizando la hermenéutica queer/crip y el ejemplo biográfico de la lucha encarnada en Audre Lorde. En el texto se plantea el potencial semántico del dolor y las aperturas sociales que puede impulsar su (re)apropiación por parte de grupos subalternos. En síntesis, se realiza un ejercicio hermenéutico que analiza paralelamente el feminismo de Audre Lorde, la teoría queer/crip y el uso de la experiencia del dolor y la enfermedad como fenómenos que pueden politizarse. Todo ello se relaciona con el discurso de la autora y la inscripción de esta posición en la pedagogía social del siglo xxi.Palabras clave: política del cuerpo; dolor; Teoría Queer; Teoría Crip
Grice’s Conversational Implicature: A Pragmatics Analysis of Selected Poems of Audre Lorde
No full textA number of works have been done by scholars on the study and interpretation of Audre Lorde’s poetry, especially through the lens of literary and critical analysis. However, Lorde’s poems have not been analyzed pragmatically. A lot may have been written about Lorde’s poetry, but there is absolutely no evidence of a pragmatics study of her work. Lorde is the author of many poems that have been studied in various theoretical dimensions, but none have been done with reference to their pragmatics implications. The problem which this research recognizes, therefore, is that Lorde’s poems, especially the ones under the present study, have not been studied and interpreted using Grice’s theory of Conversational Implicature (Cooperative Principle) which is comprised the four maxims: the maxims of Quantity, Quality, Manner and Relation. This study seeks to discover the extent to which these maxims could be applied to the reading of the selected poems of Lorde. It also seeks to ascertain the degree to which Lorde’s selected poems violate or adhere to these maxims. The study has found that Audre Lorde in some of her poems, violates the maxims as well as adheres to them both in the same breath.</jats:p
Book review. Matthew R. McLennan. Philosophy and vulnerability: Catherine Breillat, Joan Didion, and Audre Lorde, London: Bloomsbury, 2019. 183 pp.
No full text[Excerpt] In Philosophy and Vulnerability, the author sets out to put a certain idea of philosophy to
work by commenting on the writings of three artists, activists and thinkers: Catherine
Breillat, a French filmmaker, novelist and professor; Joan Didion, an American political
writer; and Audre Lorde, a poet, feminist, and civil rights activist – none of whom are
professional academic philosophers
More Evidence that George Joye Wrote The Souper of the Lorde
No full textThe question of ascribing to William Tyndale or to George Joye the 1533 treatise The Souper of the Lorde (Short-Title Catalogue 24468) was rightly decided in Joye's favor by W. D. J. Cargill Thompson, but somewhat more careful attention to the contents of the treatise might have removed even the little doubt which that investigator allowed to shadow the ascription to Joye. His admirable summary of the most persuasive external evidence was indeed conclusive enough virtually to eliminate Tyndale from consideration as author, in spite of the opinions of such notable Tyndale scholars as J. F. Mozley and S. L. Greenslade. But internal evidences clinch the case for Joye.</jats:p
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