Artikel
"Sweet home" : Audre Lorde's "Zami" and the legacies of American writing
Verfasst von:
Pearl, Monica B.
in:
Journal of American studies
Cambridge:
2009
,
297 - 317 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Pearl, Monica B. |
| In: | Journal of American studies |
| Jahr: | 2009 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| Although Audre Lorde calls the narrative of her life Zami: A New Spelling of My Name a “biomythography,” suggesting that the life of an African American lesbian cannot be told in any previously available generic forms of life-writing or self-expression, Zami actually derives from two extant American literary traditions – the African American slave narrative and the lesbian coming out story – rendering it, after all, not a marginal text, but rather a text that falls obviously and firmly in a tradition of American literature. Both traditions turn siginificantly on the trope of “home,” of finding a home where one belongs. In finding the “home” that she is seeking not, ultimately, geographically, but, rather, generically – in the very text she is writing – Lorde's life story also ends up signifying the similarity of these two ostensibly disparate forms: the slave narrative and the coming out story, suggesting a common narrative trajectory of marginal American identities in the tradition of American life-writing. | |
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