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by: Audre Lorde
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9781879960732
ISBN: 1879960737
Label: Aunt Lute Books
Manufacturer: Aunt Lute Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 104
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Sales Rank: 98187
Studio: Aunt Lute Books
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First published in 1980, this new edition brings together posthumous tributes to Lorde from such writers and poets as Margaret Randall, Jewelle Gomez, and Barbara Smith, among others. The forthrightness and ferocity with which Audre Lorde greeted every social injustice is in full force in this courageous exploration of her breast cancer and mastectomy. Using the journal, memoir, and essay forms, Lorde gives voice to her 'feelings and thoughts about the travesty of prosthesis, the pain of amputation, the function of cancer in a profit economy, confrontation with mortality, the strength of women loving, and the power and rewards of self-conscious living.' Lorde powerfully weaves together the three literary forms, allowing her to leap from raw expressions of pain to her inimitably astute social observations.
Lorde began writing her journal entries six months after her radical mastectomy; they illustrate her process of integrating the crisis into her life, retelling her experience from detection to follow-up therapies. Lorde's most passionate battle was waged against silence. 'This is it, Audre,' Lorde wrote. 'You're on your own.' Where was the model? she asked, seeking another voice to speak to her experience. In The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde has given us a rich, powerful model that is, alas, still relevant.
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'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
'The forthrightness and ferocity with which Audre Lorde greeted every social injustice is in full force in this courageous exploration.'-Amazon.com
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.
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Rating: - Thought provoking
Audre Lorde gives a good idea of exactly what she's feeling in her journals, even down to the negative aspects of her disease that some would more than likely keep to themselves. I appreciate her frankness and willingness to open up to other women thinking the same things.
The thoughts bounced around a bit but overall I appreciate her putting her journey into words.
Rating:  - Courageous Memoir
Lorde's book will be of interest to those battling breast cancer and feminists, but also to anyone wanting to learn from a difficult experience. Lorde teaches us how to speak out against the injuustices done women, what it's like to survive in a hostile, male-chauvinist universe. Although the book is sad the wisdom it contains readily makes up for its difficcult content. Lorde's struggle is successful because she manages to rise above the difficulties caused by breast cancer--being one-breasted, ... Read More
Rating:  - A survivor , but not a believer in this...
I think this is an important book for breast cancer survivors to read. It has made me think about a lot of things regarding my recovering.
However, I can't help but feel...how? Inferior? Shallow? Like a wimp? I can't even think of a word for it...for choosing to wear a prosthesis and for looking forward to my reconstruction. As if somehow, if I was a better woman or I was a better feminist or a braver survivor I could say, "Forget it!" and walk around the world proudly showing off ... Read More
Rating: - It's a great tool in overcomming the fear of breast cancer.
I cried through most of this book. Not out of pity for what Audre was going through, but simply because I have seldom seen anyone face such a crisis with such nobility and strength. On some level I think we all fear breast cancer. This book took the terror out of it for me and made me feel that if I were to end up with cancer that I would somehow come through it okay. Audre demonstrates that no matter how bad things get there is something to be learned and gained by the experience. She is a very inspiring ... Read More
Rating:  - Striking continuation of food-fest/allegorical galcommentary
Following on the tremendously sensual roast-beef scene in Zami, Lourde here rejects beef after coming to terms with the oppressive white system that probably imposed hormone-ridden substandard products on people of colour. I think this is very brave. I'd like to propose that in memory of Lourde all self-respecting womyn reject mass-produced beef products. A great book. And very eye-opening.
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