Audre Lorde
Lorde's writing through illness and Lispector's fiction offer different accounts of bodily experience.
The Cancer Journals (1980)
Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. Spinsters Ink, 1980.
Why does my body feel unfamiliar now?
An unfamiliar body does not have a single meaning. Lorde's writing through illness and Lispector's fiction offer different accounts of bodily experience. Neither can explain the cause of a change in your body. What language helps describe the experience without deciding what it must mean?
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Clarice Lispector
Lorde's writing through illness and Lispector's fiction offer different accounts of bodily experience.
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Lispector, Clarice. The Hour of the Star. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero, Carcanet, 1986.
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