Memoirs of Well-Being : : Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability / / Tanja Reiffenrath.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Reiffenrath, Tanja,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: KörperKulturen
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839435465; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485264; 9783110701012; 9783110489842; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839435465?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Tanja Reiffenrath.

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.