The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

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.

A Penguin Classic

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.

Audre Lorde, a writer, activist, and mother of two, grew raised in Harlem in the 1930s. She graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in library science, won a National Endowment for the Arts poetry award, and served as New York State's Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She has twelve books to her credit, including Zami and The Black Unicorn. Lorde died of cancer in 1992, at the age of 58.

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ISBN 13	9780143135203
ISBN 10	0143135201
Title	The Cancer Journals
Author	Audre Lorde
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2020-10-13
Number of pages	96
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