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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cancer Journals canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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essay collection ⓘ |
| author | Audre Lorde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
African-American literature
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feminist literature ⓘ illness narrative ⓘ memoir ⓘ queer literature ⓘ |
| hasPart |
essays
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journal entries ⓘ speeches ⓘ |
| hasReception |
considered a classic of feminist health writing
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widely taught in African American studies ⓘ widely taught in gender studies ⓘ widely taught in queer studies ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
community support
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intersectionality ⓘ medical patriarchy ⓘ mortality ⓘ resistance ⓘ self-definition ⓘ silence and speech ⓘ visibility of disabled and ill bodies ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Black feminist thought
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civil rights movement ⓘ lesbian feminist activism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Black feminism
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LGBT literature ⓘ womanism ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
body image
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breast cancer ⓘ feminism ⓘ healthcare ⓘ homophobia ⓘ mastectomy ⓘ racism ⓘ sexism ⓘ survivorship ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging norms around prosthesis after mastectomy
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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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