The cancer journals / Audre Lorde ; foreword by Tracy K. Smith.
Lorde, Audre, author.; Smith, Tracy K., writer of foreword.
2020
RC280.B8 L58 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
The cancer journals / Audre Lorde ; foreword by Tracy K. Smith.
Author
Lorde, Audre, author.
ISBN
9780143135203 (paperback)
0143135201 (paperback)
9780525506874 (electronic book)
9780141993140 (electronic book)
Published
[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2020.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 69 pages ; 20 cm.
Call Number
RC280.B8 L58 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.99/4490092 B
Summary
"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. Living as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Lorde heals and re-envisions herself on her own terms and offers her voice, grief, resistance, and courage to those dealing with their own diagnosis. Poetic and profoundly feminist, Lorde's testament gives visibility and strength to women with cancer to define themselves, and to transform their silence into language and action."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Smith, Tracy K., writer of foreword.
Series
Penguin classics.
Available in Other Form
The cancer journals
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Introduction
I. The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
II. Breast Cancer: A Black Lesbian Feminist Experience
III. Breast Cancer: Power vs. Prosthesis.

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