The Cancer Journals (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Audre Lorde
- First Published: 1980
- 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
The Work
The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde’s documentation and critique of her experience with breast cancer, is a painstaking examination of the journey Lorde takes to integrate this crisis into her identity. The book chronicles Lorde’s anger, pain, and fear about cancer and is as frank in its themes of “the travesty of prosthesis, the pain of amputation, and the function of cancer in a profit society,” as it is unflinching in its treatment of Lorde’s confrontation with mortality.
Lorde speaks on her identity as a black, lesbian, feminist mother and poet...
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