The Cancer Journals (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Audre Lorde
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1977–1979
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Audre Lorde, Frances
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: African Americans, 1970’s, Suffering, United States or Americans, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Gender roles, Hope, Spiritual life or spirituality, Cancer, Fear, Feminism, Honesty, Lesbianism or lesbians, Pain, Patents, Surgery or surgeons, Women’s issues
- Locales: United States
Form and Content
Audre Lorde, in her poetry, her fiction, and her nonfiction, always assumes the role of outsider. She speaks for those who are marginalized for a number of reasons. She speaks for African Americans, for women, for lesbians, and for cancer patients. This volume documents her discovery that she has breast cancer; her reactions; the medical procedures performed on her, including a mastectomy; her subsequent emotional coming-to-terms; and her courageous speaking out about a disease so dreadful that it is considered bad form even to mention it.
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