The Averted Gaze: Audre Lorde’s <i>Zami</i> and the Death of Emmett Till

This essay considers Audre Lorde&#8217;s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) as an example of the neoliberal turn to memoir that both complicates and exemplifies important aspects of the relationship between literary form and ideological expressions of racial and sexual identity. By examining...

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Main Author: Rachel Watson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-08-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/3/136