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Diary of a detour /
"'Diary of a detour' is film and cultural studies scholar Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CCL), a form of incurable cancer. When diagnosed in 2008, Stern began writing short blog posts about her treatment to keep friends updated about her health...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Writing matters! (Duke University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Chickens Saved My Life
- 2. The Time It Takes (By Way of an Introduction)
- 3. Secret
- 4. A Possum Fate (Averted)
- 5. Events Unfold in the Snow
- 6. Chicken Feet
- 7. Why Chickens, or Homage to Gloria
- 8. Boomerang
- 9. A Way of Making Another Egg
- 10. Shivers and Shakes
- 11. The Chicken or the Egg
- 12. Strawberry/Fetish
- 13. Life after Life
- 14. The Poetry of Pigs
- 15. Some Musings on Metaphor
- 16. Tricking the Body
- 17. Chicken Joke
- 18. Nice Paint Job
- 19. Frenzied Calm
- 20. Tokhm-e Morgh
- 21. Disability
- 22. Why Me, Lord?
- 23. Five Down, Two to Go
- 24. The Warrior Song of King Gesar
- 25. Euphoria
- 26. A Fern Romance
- 27. Weeding
- 28. Untimely
- 29. Blue/Shimmer
- 30. Missed Connection
- 31. Blown through the Air
- 32. Don't Think about It (For the Moment)
- 33. Spheres of Glass
- 34. Purple Haze
- 35. Cantankerous Rooster
- 36. Dead and Alive: A Tenuous Continuum
- 37. Breakfast Anecdotes
- 38. Landscape
- 39. Tootin Pootin
- 40. Dragon Inn
- 41. All along the Highway
- 42. A Lion's Roar
- 43. The Ecology of Cancer, and What Do Ants Have to Do with It?
- 44. What Does It Matter?
- 45. So Unctuous and So Tender
- 46. Dorland
- 47. Touched by a Whale
- 48. Travel
- 49. The Answer Is Not Coming
- 50. Nightclub Bouncers
- 51. All Natural
- 52. Anza Borrego
- 53. Lighten Up
- 54. Glad to Be Here (Plaintive Knowledge)
- 55. Stinging Nettles
- 56. A Talent for Cancer
- 57. Phobia: The Chickens Come Home to Roost
- 58. Walking Meditation
- 59. A Ticket for Tuppence
- 60. Reaching Yirrkala
- 61. Chookless
- 62. Chicken Shit
- 63. Mimetic Pain
- 64. You Are Mostly Not You
- 65. RIP Elvis, the King of the Cats
- 66. Afterlife
- 67. Art Alive
- 68. Bodies in Pieces
- 69. A Prospect of Consolation
- 70. Fig Future
- 71. Between Fresh and Rotten
- 72. Blood Poetry
- 73. Shimmer and Glimmer
- 74. I Need an Advocate
- 75. Nameless
- 76. Fermentation Dreams
- 77. The Structure That a Life Has
- 78. Like a Cat in a Hat, Sleek and Brave: RIP Ryoko
- 79. The Malvolio Gene
- 80. What Do You Expect?
- 81. Chimera
- 82. The Last Chicken Standing
- 83. Arrivederci
- Notes