Illness as Many Narratives: "Arts, Medicine and Culture" by Bolaki, Stella

Illness as Many Narratives: "Arts, Medicine and Culture" (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474425582)

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Illness as Many Narratives: "Arts, Medicine and Culture" by Bolaki, Stella

Illness as Many Narratives: "Arts, Medicine and Culture"

$37.95
Illness as Many Narratives: "Arts, Medicine and Culture" by Bolaki, Stella

Illness as Many Narratives: "Arts, Medicine and Culture"

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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"Illness narratives have become a cultural phenomenon in the Western world. In what ways can they be seen to have aesthetic, ethical and political value? What do they reveal about experiences of illness, the relationship between the body and identity and the role of the arts in bearing witness to illness for people who are ill and those connected to them? How can they influence medicine, the arts and shape public understandings of health and illness? These questions and more are explored in Illness as Many Narratives, which contains readings of a rich array of representations of illness from the 1980s to the present. A wide range of arts and media are considered such as life writing, photography, performance, film, theatre, artists' books and animation. The individual chapters deploy multidisciplinary critical frameworks and discuss physical and mental illness. Through reading this book you will gain an understanding of the complex contribution illness narratives make to contemporary culture and the emergent field of Critical Medical Humanities."

Author: Stella Bolaki
ISBN-10: 1474425585
ISBN-13: 9781474425582
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2017
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
By Stella Bolaki
By Stella Bolaki
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Dr Stella Bolaki is Senior Lecturer in American Literature in the School of English at the University of Kent. She is the author of Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction (Rodopi, 2011) and the co-editor, with Chris Gair of Disability and the American Counterculture, a special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (forthcoming, 2015), co-editor, with Sabine Broeck, of Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies (University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming, 2015), and co-editor, with Derek Ryan, of Contradictory Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty-first Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference (Clemson University Digital Press, 2012).

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