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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.

Memoirs of Well-Being: Rewriting Discourses 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... Read more

    Publisher: Transcript Verlag
    Publication Date: 15/06/2016
    ISBN13: 9783837635461, 978-3837635461
    ISBN10: 3837635465

    Number of Pages: 320

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    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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