Body Language (eBook, ePUB)

Narrating illness and disability
Redaktion: Couser, G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the last several decades, narratives of illness and disability have been published in unprecedented numbers and gained critical acclaim, and they have come to represent one of the most vital areas in the growth of personal narrative. This volume explores this phenomenon using the latest critical theories and from the perspectives of patients and creative writers as well as academics. It attends to the problematic intersection of trauma and disability; it encompasses graphic narratives, essays, and diaries, as well as full-length memoirs; and it examines the ethical as well as the aesthetic dimensions of narrative. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315531236
• Artikelnr.: 57101374

Autorenporträt

G. Thomas Couser earned his B.A. in English at Dartmouth College, NH, USA, and his Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown University, RI, USA. He taught English and American Studies and founded and directed the Disability Studies Program at Hofstra University, NY, retiring in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Body Language: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing 1. The
Illness Essay 2. View from the Sickroom: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy
Wordsworth, and Writing Women's Lives of Illness 3. Mindful Skin:
Disability and the Ethics of Touch in Life Writing 4. Life Writing and
Graphic Narratives 5. Interactions: Disability, Trauma, and the
Autobiography 6. Life Writing and Dementia Care: A Project to Assist those
'with Dementia' to Tell their Stories Reflections 7. 'Ah, but I was so much
older then, I'm younger than that now': Cancer and a Virtual Relationship
8. 'But That's Just What You Can't Do': Personal Reflections on the
Construction and Management of Identity Following a Late Diagnosis of
Asperger Syndrome