Zami: A New Spelling of My Name : A Biomythography (Paperback)

from litalex

read it for class (sexuality in literature or something similar), but am very glad that I did. excellent book, with a detailed look at what it means to grow up both black and lesbian in the 1950s.

from bfertig

This is a poetic, strong, and darkly innocent look at growing up black and lesbian in new york city in the 40s 50s and fighting the fight before it was sexy and about the loves and lives that made audrey lorde. I'm not sure exactly what a biomythography is, but it reads well enough as a memoir of...

from RachelWeaver

This book is a hallmark of what it means when people say, "the personal is political." I've read Zami several times and each time it has struck me as the purest artifact of a woman's life. It resonates with me in a very personal way, but the political implications are teeming through this book. P...

from sumariotter

This was one of those life-changing beautiful powerful books for me that made me realize that being a lesbian is a good thing, and being a powerful woman is a good thing. She sensitized me to issues of race and gender that were only academic for me before this novel. It's been years since I read ...

from sumariotter

This was one of those life-changing beautiful powerful books for me that made me realize that being a lesbian is a good thing, and being a powerful woman is a good thing. She sensitized me to issues of race and gender that were only academic for me before this novel. It's been years since I read ...