- Cancer, Diaries, Poets, American, American Poets
First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde’s experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women’s pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women’s body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis.
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Earnest, grave, contemplative and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- First published
- June 1, 2000
- Pages
- 77
- Publisher
- Spinsters Ink, Aunt Lute Books, Spinsters/Aunt Lute
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141993140
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