Beyond Words : Illness and the Limits of Expression
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Literature and Medicine Series
ISBN-10
082635324X
ISBN-13
9780826353245
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Imprint
University of New Mexico Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 15th, 2013
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
220 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 14.00 x 1.10 cms
Ksh 3,800.00
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Published accounts of illness and disability often emphasise hope and positive thinking: the woman who still looked beautiful after losing her hair, the man who ran five miles a day during chemotherapy. This acclaimed examination of the genre of the illness narrative questions that upbeat approach. Author Kathlyn Conway, a three-time cancer survivor and herself the author of an illness memoir, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease. By wrestling with the challenge of writing about the reality of serious illness and injury, she argues, writers can offer a truer picture of the complex relationship between body and mind.
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