The coming out story is a narrative of recognition and naming, a severing from an old identity and the community associated with it, and the adoption of a new identity and thus a reconnection with a new community. It is written and published at a time when coming out stories were emerging, as fiction and as personal accounts, and it is not itself unlike a coming out story. Pearl writes, “ Audre Lorde's text is partly an accounting of how she came to be, or how she came to understand herself as, a lesbian.
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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