The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

104 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Originally published in 1980, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals offers a profoundly feminist analysis of her experience with breast cancer and a modified radical mastectomy. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Lorde fuses the per...

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Moods

reflective 80%
emotional 76%
informative 55%
challenging 49%
inspiring 47%
hopeful 31%
sad 28%
dark 11%
tense 3%
adventurous 1%
funny 1%

Pace

medium 42%
fast 31%
slow 25%

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