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...

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Beteilige Person: Reiffenrath, Tanja (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Deutsch
Veröffentlicht: transcript Verlag 2016
Schriftenreihe:KörperKulturen
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Links:https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/book/10.5555/9783839435465
Zusammenfassung: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 from previous scholarship by bringing into focus the writers' representations of cure, recovery, and healing as well as their reluctance to bring closure to their narratives and align their stories with traditional notions of health. These memoirs thus partake in the construction of alternative narratives of illness and disability
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9783839435465