The cancer journals / Audre Lorde ; foreword by Tracy K. Smith.
"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 an...
Uniform Title: | Penguin classics.
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Language: | English |
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[New York, New York] :
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2020.
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Series: | Penguin classics.
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Physical Description: | xiv, 69 pages ; 20 cm. |
Format: | Book |
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"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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Call Number: | RC280.B8 L58 2020 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9780143135203 0143135201 9780141993140 0141993146 9780525506874 052550687X 9780241453506 024145350X |