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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Audiobook, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Play Audiobook Sample

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Audiobook

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Read By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 11.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 8.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2024 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250364562

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

62

Longest Chapter Length:

55:21 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

09 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

17:07 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

This program is read by the author.

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde.



We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde’s teachings on “the creative power of difference” may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.

Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. Possibly the focus on Lorde’s quotable essays, to the neglect of her complex poems, has led us to ignore her deep engagement with the natural world, the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For her, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be of earth on earth, and how to survive—to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands.

In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde. Her life and work become more than a sound bite; they become a cosmic force, teaching us the grand contingency of life together on earth.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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