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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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 ...

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Moods

reflective 80%
emotional 76%
informative 56%
challenging 48%
inspiring 48%
hopeful 32%
sad 27%
dark 12%
tense 3%
adventurous 1%
funny 1%

Pace

medium 42%
fast 32%
slow 25%

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