“I am come home”: Lesbian Sex and Audre Lorde’s Poetics of Reparation
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Audre Lorde places an extreme importance of value on what she calls the “erotic,” an intellectual, physical, and emotional sharing of joy and satisfaction with another which constitutes a lexicon of connection through which the woman can identify herself as whole. This paper seeks to delineate Lorde’s understanding of the erotic in her poetry through the philosophical model of hermeneutic oppression and interpretive resources as understood by recent scholarship in feminist social epistemology. Lorde identifies white heteropatriarchy as dispossessing women of access to this erotic through explicitly linguistic means, mirroring theorist Miranda Fricker’s understanding of hermeneutic injustice as an oppressive institution’s denial of access to interpretive and expressive resources through which oppressed communities can understand and articulate their experience. Lorde’s poetics is concerned with the restoration of meaning to the erotic, and this is most notable in her use of the word “come” throughout her poetry. Under patriarchy, simply substitute for “orgasm,” Lorde explores the word and its full linguistic origin through metaphor and in doing so restores meaning to the erotic beyond that of euphemism. This becomes, at once, repair of the self, repatriation of lost meaning, reparations for those who suffered under a broken system.
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Audre Lorde places an extreme importance of value on what she calls the “erotic,” an intellectual, physical, and emotional sharing of joy and satisfaction with another which constitutes a lexicon of connection through which the woman can identify herself as whole. This paper seeks to delineate Lorde’s understanding of the erotic in her poetry through the philosophical model of hermeneutic oppression and interpretive resources as understood by recent scholarship in feminist social epistemology. Lorde identifies white heteropatriarchy as dispossessing women of access to this erotic through explicitly linguistic means, mirroring theorist Miranda Fricker’s understanding of hermeneutic injustice as an oppressive institution’s denial of access to interpretive and expressive resources through which oppressed communities can understand and articulate their experience. Lorde’s poetics is concerned with the restoration of meaning to the erotic, and this is most notable in her use of the word “come” throughout her poetry. Under patriarchy, simply substitute for “orgasm,” Lorde explores the word and its full linguistic origin through metaphor and in doing so restores meaning to the erotic beyond that of euphemism. This becomes, at once, repair of the self, repatriation of lost meaning, reparations for those who suffered under a broken system.
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