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Recovering bodies : illness, disability, and life-writing /

"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...

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Main Author: Couser, G. Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
Sick > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
People with disabilities > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
Sick > United States > Psychology.
People with disabilities > United States > Psychology.
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
AIDS (Disease)
People with disabilities.
Biography.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Breast Neoplasms
Disabled Persons
Persons with Hearing Disabilities.
Autobiographies as Topic.
Biographies as Topic.
autobiography (genre)
biographies (literary genre)
biography (general genre)
Personal Narrative
Personal narratives.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0585136181
9780585136189
9780299155636
0299155633
9780299155605
0299155609
9780299155643
0299155641
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Human Conditions
  • Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
  • 2. Medical Discourse and Subjectivity
  • 3. Self-Reconstruction: Personal Narratives of Breast Cancer
  • 4. HIV/AIDS and Its Stories
  • 5. Crossing (Out) the Border: Autobiography and Physical Disability
  • 6. Signs of Life: Deafness and Personal Narrative
  • 7. Epilogue: The Value of Body Stories.

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