Stella Bolaki

Gebundenes Buch

Illness as Many Narratives

Arts, Medicine and Culture

Beschreibung

Illness narratives have become a cultural phenomenon in the Western world but in what ways can they be seen to have aesthetic, ethical and political value? Through reading this book you will gain an understanding of the complex contribution illness narratives make to contemporary culture and the emergent field of Critical Medical Humanities.

Autor

Dr Stella Bolaki is Senior Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English at the University of Kent. She is the author of Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction (Rodopi, 2011) and the co-editor, with Chris Gair of Disability and the American Counterculture, a special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (forthcoming, 2015), co-editor, with Sabine Broeck, of Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies (University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming, 2015), and co-editor, with Derek Ryan, of Contradictory Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty-first Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference (Clemson University Digital Press, 2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781474402422
• ISBN-10: 1474402429
• Artikelnr.: 43501886