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Memoirs of Well-Being : Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability.
As the body politics of life writing in the United States change, illness and disability memoirs receive considerable attention. Although these narratives are framed by a lack of health, they abundantly present health and do so beyond its binary relationship to the pathological. This book departs fr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
2016.
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| Colección: | Körperkulturen.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover. Memoirs of Well-Being; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; 1. Introduction ; CONTEXTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ; 2. Illness and Disability in Contemporary Memoirs ; 2.1 Illness and Disability on the Literary Market: The Age of the Memoir.
- 2.2 The Personal and the Theoretical: Memoirs of Well-Being as Academic Memoirs 2.3 Narrating Illness and Disability: Conventional Scripts and Their Revisions ; 3. Approaching 'Well-Being' ; 3.1 Health Problems and the Problem with 'Health' ; 3.2 Rewriting Cure: The Remission Society.
- 3.3 Recovering the Body: Embodiment and the Remission Society THE 'CASE STUDIES' ; 4. Healing Beyond Reconstruction: Ampu-Narration in Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals ; 4.1 Against Linearity, Certainty, and Closure: Deconstructing the Triumph Narrative in The Cancer Journals.
- 4.2 Subverting the (Silent) War on Breast Cancer: Lorde's Vision of the 'Warrior' 4.3 Exposing the Post-Mastectomy Body: Lorde's Rejection of (Narrative) Prosthesis ; 5. Musical Cu[r]e: Reconnection in Oliver Sacks's A Leg to Stand On.
- 5.1 "Bringing the Body Back In": Embodiment in Sacks's Memoir 5.2 Encountering the Doctor: Sacks, Dr. Swan, and the Disappointment with the Biomedical Cure ; 5.3 Recovery in Action: Sacks's "Muscle Music" ; 5.4 Merging the Objective and the Subjective: Sacks's 'Neurology of Identity'