Zami was part of an increasingly popular genre: the coming-out story. This is one way of expanding our vision.” In other words, it’s fiction built from many sources. It has elements of biography and history and myth. Zami is a groundbreaking work that pioneers a new genre of writing, which the author called “a biomythography, which is really fiction. Published in 1982, Lorde’s book was released in an era when feminist writers, critics, and theorists were coming to terms with the many ways cultural and sexual diversity could be examined, focusing more intently on relations between women rather than simply placing women as a whole in contrast to men.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is an autobiography by poet Audre Lorde.
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