Zami – is the biography of Black feminist author and activist Audre Lorde. The work was first published in the USA in the 1980s under the title “Zami – A New Spelling of My Name”. Since 2012, the “mythobiography” has also been available in German.
“In ZAMI, the African American poet creates a new form, mythobiography, a linking of elements of autobiography, mythology, and history – and in this way creates new approaches to the discovery of female identity.” […]
Despite the tensions of social origin, Lorde experiences black and lesbian not as polar dualities but as overlapping entities. […] In Zami, otherness and differences become for Lorde the source of her strength and the basis of her call to use otherness and differences constructively.
The mother takes as strong a role here as the black women she has loved. In the process of reconciling with her mother, she recognizes in her the first image of women to whom she owes “the power behind her voice.”” […]
Publisher’s Book Description
Audre Lorde 2012: ZAMI – A new spelling of my name. Münster: Unrast.
If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book is: http: //www.links-lesen.de/article/978-3-89771-603-2