Body Language: Narrating Illness and Disability

ISBN-13: 9780367890087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

G. Couser

Opis

This volume explores narratives of illness and disability using the latest critical theories and through the perspectives of patients, creative writers, and academics. It examines the intersection of trauma and disability and the ethical dimensions of narrative. It was first published as a special issue of Life Writing.

Spis treści

Introduction – Body Language: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing  1. The Illness Essay  2. View from the Sickroom: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Writing Women’s Lives of Illness  3. Mindful Skin: Disability and the Ethics of Touch in Life Writing  4. Life Writing and Graphic Narratives  5. Interactions: Disability, Trauma, and the Autobiography  6. Life Writing and Dementia Care: A Project to Assist those ‘with Dementia’ to Tell their Stories  Reflections  7. ‘Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now’: Cancer and a Virtual Relationship  8. ‘But That’s Just What You Can’t Do’: Personal Reflections on the Construction and Management of Identity Following a Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome

O autorze

G. Thomas Couser earned his B.A. in English at Dartmouth College, NH, USA, and his Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown University, RI, USA. He taught English and American Studies and founded and directed the Disability Studies Program at Hofstra University, NY, retiring in 2011.