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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name—a Biomythography

by Audre Lorde

Crossing Pr. (Feminist Series). 2011. 264p. ISBN 9780895941220. pap. 16.99; ebk. ISBN 9780307780812.

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In a title that combines autobiography and fiction, activist, writer, and librarian Lorde describes her life as a daughter of immigrants and as a lesbian in 1950s Harlem. She expresses the loneliness of being an outsider and the discovery of a talent for writing that shaped her life. Zami has been in print since 1982. A GLBTQ classic.

Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014

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