TY  - BOOK
AU  - REIFFENRATH,Tanja
TI  - Memoirs of Well-Being: Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability 
T2  - KörperKulturen
SN  - 9783839435465
AV  - F1418 .R454 2016eb
U1  - 327.7308 23
PY  - 2016///
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - DE-Limba și literatura engleză
KW  - UDJG
KW  - resursă online
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -