
Lorde, Audre: Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews 1984-1992
Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews 1984-1992 by Audre Lorde. Edited, with an afterword, by Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro. Preface by Dagmar Schultz (Kenning Editions, paperback) Publication Date: April 20, 2020 Publisher Marketing: "AUDRE LORDE: DREAM OF EUROPE elucidates Lorde's methodology as a poet, mentor, and activist during the last decade of her life. This volume compiles a series of seminars, interviews, and conversations held by the author and collaborators across Berlin, Western Europe, and The Caribbean between 1984-1992. While Lorde stood at the intersection of various historical and literary movements in The United States--the uprising of black social life after the Harlem Renaissance, poetry of the AIDS epidemic, and the unfolding of the Civil Rights Movement--this selection of texts reveals Lorde as a catalyst for the first movement of Black Germans in West Berlin. The legacy of this 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' has been well preserved by her collea