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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls biomythography, which combines history, biography, and myth. [ 1 ] In the text, Lorde writes that "Zami" is "a Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers", noting that Carriacou is the ...
In Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, her "biomythography" (a term coined by Lorde that combines "biography" and "mythology") she writes, "Years afterward when I was grown, whenever I thought about the way I smelled that day, I would have a fantasy of my mother, her hands wiped dry from the washing, and her apron untied and laid neatly away ...
Autotheory is a literary tradition involving the combination of the narrative forms of autobiography, memoir, and critical theory.Works of autotheory involve a first-person account of an author’s life blended with research investigations.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name ... -identification as a lesbian and her description of the novel's genre was changed to queer and queerness in the published quotes. ...
Other works began to arrive in the early 1980s which featured black lesbian protagonists like Alice Walker's novel The Color Purple and Audre Lorde's autobiography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. While both novels explored the development of their characters' sexuality, they also examined the characters' experiences as black women in a sexist ...
The Grinch. The Grinch can't steal our Christmas spirit, but he sure can deliver laughs. In the 2018 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children's storybook, Benedict Cumberbatch brings the mean ol ...
Pariah has been compared to the written work of Audre Lorde, specifically Zami: a New Spelling of My Name. [14] Both forms provide a different take on the lived experiences of young Black lesbian women in a way that gives the characters depth and power.
Tori Spelling has five children, but her eldest son, Liam, stole her heart the moment he was born. “Happy 17th birthday to the first love of my life to grow inside me,” Spelling, 50, gushed ...