![]() ![]() The Afro-Carribean lesbian divine is manifested via Lorde’s inextricable relationships with Carriacou women: her mother Linda whom she must transcend, juxtaposed with Afrekete, her queer lover whom she becomes. Lorde embodies the fullest degree of self-actualization on both the mythic and real island of Carriacou, Grenada in her correlation of the Afro-Carribean lesbian with goddesshood. In her 1982 biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde insinuates herself in the canon of Black autobiography and subverts its patriarchal tropes to better represent her intersectional identities. ![]() The Black feminist movement, burgeoning during the second wave of American feminism with ethos of destabilizing classical ideas of white male veneration, recieved greater acknowledgment and circulation both culturally and scholarly in the latter half of the 20th century. ![]() In the American traditions of Christian religious-political institutionalization and Black autobiography, veneration has historically been reserved to men for their position as hero, warrior, and/or messiah. ![]()
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