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Chronic Conditions (Paperback)
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Chronic Conditions (Paperback)
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Imagine a house whose wiring is spliced and patchy with knob and
tube, coiled like a serpent ready to strike and spark at any
moment. Even if you have a fire trap behind your walls, the lights
will turn on. In her memoir of a life lived in physical pain, Karen
Engle asks whether and how language can capture what it’s like to
be in a body that appears to work from the outside, when its
internal systems operate through an ad hoc assemblage of garbled
messaging, reroutings, and shaky foundations. A series of narrative
reflections capture the myriad ways in which the chronic conditions
its suffering subject. Contrary to claims that pain obliterates
language – long a trope of writing about illness – Engle
contends that the person with chronic pain is not hampered by a
scarcity of language, but rather its excess: enervation by the
unending waves of utterance. From a history of the word chronic and
its shifting significance to meditations on multiple diagnoses and
interactions with medical personnel, Chronic Conditions is a
doctor’s case file through the looking glass of a creative
writer, scholar, and patient. Engle explores, through medical
research, literature, and art, how it feels to become attuned to
the rhythms of perpetual and mysterious physical pain. At stake
here is the search for a kind of writing that does not
instrumentalize pain for allegorical or transcendental purposes.
Chronic pain is not a sign of weakness, nor is it an opportunity
for personal growth, Engle argues. Instead, it is entirely ordinary
and deeply affecting.
General
Imprint: |
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Karen Engle
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-228-01674-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-228-01674-6 |
Barcode: |
9780228016748 |
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