Recovering bodies : illness, disability, and life writing / / G. Thomas Couser ; with a foreword by Nancy Mairs
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| Autore: |
Couser G. Thomas
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| Titolo: |
Recovering bodies : illness, disability, and life writing / / G. Thomas Couser ; with a foreword by Nancy Mairs
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| Pubblicazione: | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sick - United States - Biography - History and criticism |
| People with disabilities - United States - History and criticism | |
| Sick - United States - Psychology | |
| People with disabilities - United States - Psychology | |
| Autobiography | |
| Biography as a literary form | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-310) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Nancy Mairs -- Preface -- 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 -- References -- Index. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Recovering bodies |
| ISBN: | 1-282-42412-2 |
| 9786612424120 | |
| 0-299-15563-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812082003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Wisconsin studies in American autobiography.