Memoirs of Well-Being : : Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability / / 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 fr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | KörperKulturen
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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