Memoirs of Well-Being
REIFFENRATH, Tanja
Memoirs of Well-Being Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability / [online] : Tanja Reiffenrath - transcript Verlag, 2016 - 1 online resource (320 p.) - KörperKulturen . - Körperkulturen .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Contextual and Theoretical Framework -- 2. Illness and Disability in Contemporary Memoirs -- 3. Approaching 'Well-Being' -- The 'Case Studies' -- 4. Healing Beyond Reconstruction -- 5. Musical Cu[r]e -- 6. "She Rides It Like an Untamed Pony" -- 7. Variation and Well-Being -- 8. Rewriting the Diagnostic Narrative -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783839435465
10.14361/9783839435465 doi
DE-Limba și literatura engleză
resursă online
F1418 / .R454 2016eb
327.7308
Memoirs of Well-Being Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability / [online] : Tanja Reiffenrath - transcript Verlag, 2016 - 1 online resource (320 p.) - KörperKulturen . - Körperkulturen .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Contextual and Theoretical Framework -- 2. Illness and Disability in Contemporary Memoirs -- 3. Approaching 'Well-Being' -- The 'Case Studies' -- 4. Healing Beyond Reconstruction -- 5. Musical Cu[r]e -- 6. "She Rides It Like an Untamed Pony" -- 7. Variation and Well-Being -- 8. Rewriting the Diagnostic Narrative -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783839435465
10.14361/9783839435465 doi
DE-Limba și literatura engleză
resursă online
F1418 / .R454 2016eb
327.7308