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1 online resource (321 pages). |
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text file |
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KörperKulturen
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Körperkulturen.
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| Contents |
Cover. Memoirs of Well-Being; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; 1. Introduction ; CONTEXTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ; 2. Illness and Disability in Contemporary Memoirs ; 2.1 Illness and Disability on the Literary Market: The Age of the Memoir. |
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2.2 The Personal and the Theoretical: Memoirs of Well-Being as Academic Memoirs 2.3 Narrating Illness and Disability: Conventional Scripts and Their Revisions ; 3. Approaching 'Well-Being' ; 3.1 Health Problems and the Problem with 'Health' ; 3.2 Rewriting Cure: The Remission Society. |
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3.3 Recovering the Body: Embodiment and the Remission Society THE 'CASE STUDIES' ; 4. Healing Beyond Reconstruction: Ampu-Narration in Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals ; 4.1 Against Linearity, Certainty, and Closure: Deconstructing the Triumph Narrative in The Cancer Journals. |
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4.2 Subverting the (Silent) War on Breast Cancer: Lorde's Vision of the 'Warrior' 4.3 Exposing the Post-Mastectomy Body: Lorde's Rejection of (Narrative) Prosthesis ; 5. Musical Cu[r]e: Reconnection in Oliver Sacks's A Leg to Stand On. |
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5.1 "Bringing the Body Back In": Embodiment in Sacks's Memoir 5.2 Encountering the Doctor: Sacks, Dr. Swan, and the Disappointment with the Biomedical Cure ; 5.3 Recovery in Action: Sacks's "Muscle Music" ; 5.4 Merging the Objective and the Subjective: Sacks's 'Neurology of Identity' |
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6. "She Rides It Like an Untamed Pony": The Politics of Well-Being in Simi Linton's My Body Politic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Health in literature.
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Health in literature. |
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities in literature. |
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Healing in literature.
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Healing in literature. |
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Diseases and literature.
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Diseases and literature. |
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Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reiffenrath, Tanja. Memoirs of Well-Being : Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, ©2016 9783837635461 |
| ISBN |
9783839435465 (electronic book) |
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3839435463 (electronic book) |
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