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Product: Body Language: Narrating illness and disability (Life Writing)
Description: As much as we may like to evade them, illness and disability inescapably attend human embodiment – we are all vulnerable subjects. So it might seem natural and inevitable that the most universal, most democratic, form of literature – autobiography – should address these common features of human experience. Yet for the most part, autobiographical writing expressive of illness and disability remained quite uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century, when it flourished concurrently with successive civil rights movements. Women’s liberation, with its signature manifesto Our Bodies Ourselves, supported the breast cancer narrative; the gay rights movement encouraged AIDS narrative in response to a deadly epidemic; and the disability rights movement stimulated a surge in narratives of various disabilities. Conversely, the narratives helped to advance the respective rights movements. Such writing, then, has been representative in two senses of the term: aesthetic (mimetic) and political (acting on behalf of). It has done, and continues to do, important cultural work.

This volume explores this phenomenon using the latest critical theories and from the perspectives of patients and creative writers as well as academics. It attends to the problematic intersection of trauma and disability; it encompasses graphic narratives, essays, and diaries, as well as full-length memoirs; and it examines the ethical as well as the aesthetic dimensions of narrative. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
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Product: Letter to My Father: A Memoir
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Product: [(Memoir: An Introduction )] [Author: G.Thomas Couser] [Jan-2012]
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Product: THE EMPIRE OF THE "NORMAL": A FORUM ON DISABILITY AND SELF-REPRESENTATION [Autobiographies - 5 Different]
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Product: a/b Auto/Biography Studies Volume 10 Number 1 Spring 1995 (10)
Description: Terms of Identity: Essays on the theoretical terminology of lifewriting.
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Product: True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern (Contributions to the Study of World Literature Book 85)
Description: The essays in this collection explore new directions in autobiography studies. Examining a wide range of texts, from narratives of suicide survivors, cross-dressers, and people with HIV/AIDS to self-representations in the visual arts, the collection demonstrates how writers have used the postmodern experience fragmentation to forge new kinds of identities.

Postmodern selves, the essayists argue, are relational selves, constructed from the acute need to find identity through collaboration with others. Postmodern autobiography emerges as a search, amid shocks to the stable self, for wider patterns of significance. Of interest to researchers and scholars in autobiography, world literature, and psychology.
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Product: American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode
Brand: Brand: University of Massachusetts Press
Description: Book by Couser, G. Thomas
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Product: Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing
Brand: Cornell University Press
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Product: Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
Brand: University of Michigan Press
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Product: Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Brand: University of Wisconsin Press
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Product: Memoir: An Introduction
Brand: Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press USA
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Product: Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography
Color: Purple
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Product: Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture
Brand: Southern Illinois University Press
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