文章基本信息

标题：In the Castle of My Disease: an In-depth Study of Lorde Audre’s The Cancer Journals
本地全文：下载
作者：Rakhi Gupta ; Richa Arora
期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2019
卷号：11
期号：3
页码：1-9
DOI：10.21659/rupkatha.v11n3.17
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要：The present study is an attempt to explore a mysterious voice: a voice which has been covered by multiplelayers of darkness with excruciating pain, (the voice) which is fighting not for freedom but at least for ahope to live a common life again. Lord Audre, an African-American feminist writer and civil right activist,described her journey of breast cancer from the stage of ‘diagnosed to recovery’ and made her internalstruggle visible to the reader by using the genre of interior monologue (William James) and‘Confessionalism’ (Robert Lowell’s Life Studies) which help to reveal her thought process or internalexperiences clearly about her struggle throughout her journey. Therefore, this paper aims to tell the storyof a determinate black African-American woman who is suffering not only from identity crisis or trapped inthe world of homophobia but also struggled from cancer and is ready to reveal her personal account that ispacked with heart-wrenching pain, grief, anguish, strength, perseverance, and the importance ofmaintaining self-identity even in the face of grave adversity.
关键词：Confessional Writing; Enlightenment; Stream of Consciousness; Memory; Phobic Disorder