![]() ![]() In this way, the title, Zami-the Carriacou name for women who work side-by-side as friends and lovers-substantiates Lorde’s identity in language, as language itself represents an integral aspect of the author’s identity.Īs a child, Lorde did not speak until she could read. Even though Lorde knows, from childhood, her predilection for women, she has no language with which to express her identity. ![]() Being a black lesbian, the author never feels like she belongs, both as a black woman in an overtly racist and misogynist America and living as a lesbian in an era prior to the word “lesbian”being regularly used. The book follows the exploration of her identity as a lesbian in the 1950s. Born to West Indian immigrants, Lorde grows up as a black child in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. ![]()
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