Cancer Journals, The - Softcover

Audre Lorde

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ISBN 10: 0933216033 ISBN 13: 9780933216037

Publisher: Spinsters Ink, 1980

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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. 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. Includes photos and tributes to Lorde written after her death in 1992.

"Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet." Adrienne Rich

"This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me." Alice Walker"

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About the Author:

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) wrote eighteen books of essays and poetry, for which she won numerous awards, including the American Book Award for A Burst of Light. She received a Masters of Library Science from Columbia University. After working several years as a librarian, she became a professor of English?first at John Jay College and later at Hunter College.

Synopsis:

Describing her experience of mastectomy, the author aims to break the silence that shrouds cancer and to extract something positive out of her pain. The choices of treatment in Britain, including alternative medicine, are also examined.

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