A rite of passage into her next vocational stage, the surgery radicalizes Lorde and emancipates her writer’s voice. Although Lorde’s decision not to wear a prosthetic breast creates tension in the breast cancer survivor community, she forms new bonds of solidarity by politicizing her experience as a Black lesbian feminist. In The Cancer Journals (1980), Audre Lorde discusses her self-transformation as she battles cancer and undergoes a mastectomy. Her metamorphosis through mastectomy transforms her relationship to her daughter, her friends, her body, and her Self. As Lorde takes the road less traveled, she assembles a loving community of women around her. In her dogged determination to live in her truth, Lorde discovers the core essence of her personhood.
Lorde manages to reconcile her past self with her new reality by rejecting the guise provided by a False Self in order to embrace the reality of her one-breasted existence. Abstract: Read through a psychoanalytic lens, The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the Self in conflict with societal pressures to be docile and conform.
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