On the literary nonfiction of Nancy Mairs : a critical anthology /
Johnson, Merri Lisa,editor.
Mintz, Susannah B.,1965-editor.
Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.
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Cover; Series title; Title; Copyright; Dediction; Contents; Preface: Hello and Goodbye; Acknowledgments; Introduction;  Or Two Ways In; On Writing toward Trust; On Feminist Intellectual History; New Essays; 1 On Difficult Gifts: A Biographical Portrait of Nancy Mairs; 2 On Writing in a Collaborative Spirit: Nancy Mairs's Ethic of Community; 3 On Depression Narratives: "Hence, into the dark, we write . . . "; 4 On the Rhetoric of Gloom and Joy: "In turbulent love with the world"; 5 On Nancy's Husband George: Masculinity, Disability, and Sex after Cancer
6 On Embodied Theology: Sacraments of the Body in Ordinary Time and A Dynamic GodFoundational Statements; 7 Autopathography: Women, Illness, and Lifewriting; 8 "Making Up the Stories as We Go Along": Men, Women, and Narratives of Disability; 9 Transforming the Tale: The Auto/body/ographies of Nancy Mairs; 10 Dismembering the Heterosexual Imaginary: A FeministCultural Anatomy of the Infidelity Narrative in Nancy Mairs's; Notes on Contributors
Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.
Mairs, Nancy, 1943-2016.
Manic-depressive illness.
Women
Cultural studies.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
Sociology, general.
Cultural Studies.