Memoirs of Well-Being [online] : Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability / Tanja Reiffenrath

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REIFFENRATH, Tanja

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TextLanguage: English Series: KörperkulturenPublication details: transcript Verlag, 2016Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)ISBN:

9783839435465

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resursă online

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327.7308 23

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F1418 .R454 2016eb

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Acces la textul integral numai din contul de acces mobil

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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

Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2016Title is part of eBook package: transcript Complete Package 2014-2015Title is part of eBook package: transcript eBook Package English Contemporary 2016-2018Summary: 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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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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