Audre Lorde's Hopelessness and Hopefulness: Cultivating a Womanist Nondualism for Psycho-Spiritual Wholeness
The late black American feminist lesbian poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was known in feminist communities in the United States, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere for her poetry and prose about how to survive various forms of oppression. Though Lorde authored many political and spiritual poe...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2019]
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Feminist theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 176-194 |
IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America |
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Spirituality
B Audre Lorde B I Ching B Feminist B Nondualism B Catholicism B Womanist |
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Summary: | The late black American feminist lesbian poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was known in feminist communities in the United States, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere for her poetry and prose about how to survive various forms of oppression. Though Lorde authored many political and spiritual poems and essays (including psychological topics) in her adulthood, little has been written about Lorde's early psycho-spiritual spiritual journey from Catholicism to I Ching, which informed her adult integrated African spirituality, which in turn informed her political and social consciousness. Lorde's poems to God, written during puberty and post-puberty, and her embrace of I Ching nondualism, provides insight into how Lorde understood the psycho-spiritual challenges of surviving through hopelessness and despair, and into confidence and hopefulness. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735018814692 |