Her parents and other adults, especially her mother, discipline her harshly for insolence. Her two older sisters, Phyllis and Helen, are very close, but are rarely mentioned in Zami and Lorde spends little time with them. Lorde is legally blind from a very young age, isolating her even further from her surroundings and a family from which she does not receive much warmth or affection. Plot summary Īudre Lorde grows up in Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s, a child of Black West Indian parents. The name proves fitting: Lorde begins Zami writing that she owes her power and strength to the women in her life, and much of the book is devoted to detailed portraits of other women. In the text, Lorde writes that "Zami" is "a Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers", noting that Carriacou is the Caribbean island from which her mother immigrated. It started a new genre that the author calls biomythography, which combines history, biography, and myth. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde.
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