The cancer journals / Audre Lorde ; foreword by Tracy K. Smith.

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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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Penguin classics.
Main Author: Lorde, Audre (Author)
Other Authors: Smith, Tracy K. (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2020.
Series:Penguin classics.
Subjects:
Lorde, Audre > Diaries.
Lorde, Audre.
Breast > Cancer > Patients > United States > Diaries.
Poets, American > 20th century > Diaries.
MEDICAL / Internal Medicine.
Breast > Cancer > Patients.
Poets, American.
United States.
1900-1999
Diaries.
Genre:
Diaries.
Physical Description:xiv, 69 pages ; 20 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
  • II. Breast Cancer: A Black Lesbian Feminist Experience
  • III. Breast Cancer: Power vs. Prosthesis.