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Telling the flesh : life writing, citizenship, and the body in the letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot /
"This book is about the stories our bodies tell, the stories we tell about our bodies and the ways that we integrate such stories into broader political narratives about citizenship and belonging. The stories under examination are those of the individuals who wrote letters describing their bodi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
44. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Bodies and stories
- Body logics : letters and lives
- Textual bodies/textual selves : illness, identity, and bodily subjectivity
- Corporeal virtue and embodied citizenship
- Constitutionally autobiographical : performing kinship
- Bodily agency and the politics of pleasure
- Neurographia : writing nervous disorder
- Epilogue : The limits of storytelling.