The Cancer Journals
Audre Lorde, Caterina Riba Sanmarti • Audre Lorde • ISBN-13 978‑0143135203
The Cancer Journals
Audre Lorde, Caterina Riba Sanmarti • Audre Lorde
ISBN-10: 0143135201 · ISBN-13: 978‑0143135203 · 2020
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Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Long before contemporary narratives explored the silences surrounding illness and women's pain, Lorde challenged the rules of conformity regarding body image, advocating for the confrontation of physical loss without the concealment of prosthetics. This testament offers a profound exploration of grief, resistance, and self-definition.
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