The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde with Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins (Narrator), Tracy K. Smith (Contributor)

3 hours, 30 minutes first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

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 81%
emotional 72%
informative 59%
challenging 55%
inspiring 43%
sad 27%
hopeful 22%
dark 14%
tense 4%
funny 1%

Pace

medium 41%
slow 29%
fast 29%

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4.45

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