Memoirs of Well-Being : Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Body Cultures
ISBN-10
3837635465
ISBN-13
9783837635461
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Imprint
Transcript Verlag
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 6th, 2016
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
436 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.50 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticism
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The "case studies" show how contemporary illness and disability memoirs effectively subvert traditional narratives and shift the focus to "well-being".
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.
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