![]() ![]() I will also explore a number of questions about genre, identity and political transformation that recur in Zami and that could be counted as evidence of a literary ‘tradition’ within a broader political and social context. My key concern in this dissertation will be to investigate the approaches and significances of Zami: A New Spelling of My Name in shaping literary representations of black/lesbian subjectivity and collective resistance. In naming her text a biomythography, Lorde deliberately refutes canonical notions of a ‘purity of form’ and objectivity in order to instead reaffirm a radical tradition of black and / or lesbian feminist women’s writing. Audre Lorde’s self-named ‘biomythography’ Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, first published in 1982, offers a complex narrative that undermines many preconceptions of biography and memoir as stable genres of rhetorical or objective ‘truths’. ![]() In the struggle for voice and representation, marginalised black /lesbian women writers have often drawn on and reinvented the auto/biographical in their work in order to create new sites of multiple resistance as well as their own aesthetic and socio-political literary spaces. ![]()
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