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Recovering Bodies - Illness, Disability and Life-writing (Hardcover, New)
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Recovering Bodies - Illness, Disability and Life-writing (Hardcover, New)
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This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with
illness or disability--in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer,
deafness, and paralysis--who challenge the stigmas attached to
their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on
their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative
narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life
writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily
records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to
recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization
and impersonal medical discourse.
Responding to the recent growth of illness and disability
narratives in the United States--such works as Juliet Wittman's
"Breast Cancer Journal," John Hockenberry's "Moving Violations,"
Paul Monette's "Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir," and Lou Ann
Walker's "A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a
Family"--Couser addresses questions of both poetics and politics.
He examines why and under what circumstances individuals choose to
write about illness or disability; what role plot plays in such
narratives; how and whether closure is achieved; who assumes the
prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often
represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to
representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of
new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores
how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched
the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser's discussion of
medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the
biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and
disabledpeople.
With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most
affected by these conditions, "Recovering Bodies" contributes to an
understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural
conventions, and identity in contemporary America.
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