The Cancer Journals

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The Cancer Journals is Audre Lorde’s groundbreaking collection of essays and reflections that intertwines her personal experience with breast cancer with feminist, queer, and anti-racist critique.

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instanceOf book
essay collection
author Audre Lorde NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre African-American literature
feminist literature
illness narrative
memoir
queer literature
hasPart essays
journal entries
speeches
hasReception considered a classic of feminist health writing
widely taught in African American studies
widely taught in gender studies
widely taught in queer studies
hasTheme community support
intersectionality
medical patriarchy
mortality
resistance
self-definition
silence and speech
visibility of disabled and ill bodies
influencedBy Black feminist thought
civil rights movement
lesbian feminist activism
language English
literaryMovement Black feminism
LGBT literature
womanism
mainSubject body image
breast cancer
feminism
healthcare
homophobia
mastectomy
racism
sexism
survivorship
notableFor challenging norms around prosthesis after mastectomy
critiquing medical and social responses to breast cancer
linking personal illness with political analysis
publicationYear 1980
publisher Aunt Lute Books NERFINISHED

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