LORDE, Audre.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Black Unicorn. First edition, review copy with the slip laid-in, of Lorde's "finest poetic work" (Britannica). The Black Unicorn is Lorde's personal fashioning of a Pan-Africanism that centres her own identity as a black lesbian. Whereas for some of her male contemporaries African cosmologies offered a repertoire of bold male warrior gods, for Lorde they could be transformed into "a female vanguard capable equally of force and fertility" (Gates & Smith, p. 638).

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