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What does your body know? With this question the artist Yvonne
Buchheim invited people into her studio for portraits attempting to
capture body knowledge. What she did not know was the story that
her own body would tell. In this art book, Buchheim shares her
story of healing from cancer. Her artworks are poetic reiterations
between visual and written language, revealing the many effects
that serious illness can have on the body and mind. The artwork is
complemented by two essays that explore fragility and resilience in
surviving illness. Kopfüberleben (Life Turned Upside Down)
presents us with creative forms of storytelling that use drawing,
photography, and stop-motion filmmaking not as documents but as a
narrative of self-discovery. Text in English and German.
Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor
appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or
dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial;
instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This
book analyses the illness writing of contemporary North American
writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful
metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre
Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn
the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance,
self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. It joins a conversation in
Medical Humanities about alternatives to the predominance of
narrative and responds to the call for more metaphor literacy and
metaphor competence.
When Toula's father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" says to his
daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when Don DeLillo's
protagonist (age 28) "feels old" in "Cosmopolis", these young
characters are attributed an age awareness that has received little
attention in age studies so far. Leaving aside chronological or
biological dimensions of age, this study approaches age as a
metaphoric practice, suggesting that "feeling old" is not to be
taken literally but metaphorically. The book examines the cultural
meanings of age and aging for characters who are in their twenties
and thirties and challenges often-quoted labels such as
late-coming-of-age story or perpetual adolescence.
Serialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for
critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the
finite character of films, television narratives can unfold across
hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Contemporary viewing
practices and new media technologies have resulted in complex
television narratives, in which experimental temporalities and
revisions of narrative linearity and chronological time have become
key features. As the first of its kind, this volume investigates
how TV series as a powerful cultural medium shape representations
of age and aging, such as in "Orange Is The New Black", "The Wire"
or "Desperate Housewives", to understand what it means to live in
time.
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