Recovering bodies :illness, disability, and life-writing
- 作者: Couser, G. Thomas.
- 出版: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press ©1997.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages).
- 叢書名: Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
- 標題: Biography. , Malades États-Unis -- Psychologie. , Autobiography. , Sick , Personal narratives. , biographies (literary works) , Electronic books. , Sick United States -- Psychology. , Personnes handicapées États-Unis -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique. , People with disabilities. , Evidence-Based Medicine. , Récits personnels. , Personnes handicapées , Clinical Medicine. , Personnes handicapées États-Unis -- Psychologie. , Sick Psychology. , AIDS (Disease) , BiographyHistory and criticism. , MEDICAL Internal Medicine. , Biographies. , Personal Narrative , People with disabilities United States -- Psychology. , Internal Medicine. , Breast Neoplasms , Psychiatry. , Clinical Psychology. , Autobiographies. , MEDICAL Clinical Medicine. , Sick Biography. , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome , HEALTH & FITNESS Diseases -- General. , BiographiesHistoire et critique. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Persons With Hearing Impairments , Psychology. , Psychologie. , Health & Biological Sciences. , Biography as a literary form. , MEDICAL Diseases. , People with disabilities , Personnes handicapées. , autobiography (genre) , People with disabilities United States -- Biography -- History and criticism. , Malades , Sick United States -- Biography -- History and criticism. , MEDICAL Evidence-Based Medicine. , Disabled Persons , Diseases. , Biographie (Genre littéraire) , MEDICAL , Autobiographie. , DiseasesGeneral. , People with disabilities Psychology. , United States. , Biographies as Topic , HEALTH & FITNESS , Sida. , Autobiographies as Topic
- ISBN: 0299155641 , 9780299155643
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.
- 摘要: "A compelling look at personal narratives of HIV/AIDS, breast cancer paralysis, and deafness, Recovering Bodies examines many forms of life writing - including memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, and essays - to illuminate the ways in which these narratives address the stigma of illness and disability. G. Thomas Couser shows that such books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are instead a means for individuals to reclaim their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse, by telling their stories in their own terms." "Couser considers why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role plot plays in such narratives; how closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser's discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people." "With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, Recovering Bodies contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America."--Jacket.
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This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability—in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis—who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse. Responding to the recent growth of illness and disability narratives in the United States—such works as Juliet Wittman’s Breast Cancer Journal, John Hockenberry’s Moving Violations, Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, and Lou Ann Walker’s A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family—Couser addresses questions of both poetics and politics. He examines why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role plot plays in such narratives; how and whether closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser’s discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people. With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, Recovering Bodies contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America.
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