Beyond Words Illness and the Limits of Expression |
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| Author:
| Conway, Kathlyn |
| Series title: | Literature and Medicine Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8263-5324-5 |
| Publication Date: | May 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Published accounts of illness and disability often emphasise hope and positive thinking. This acclaimed examination of the genre of the illness narrative questions that upbeat approach. Author Kathlyn Conway, a three-time cancer survivor and herself the author of an illness memoir, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease.
Published accounts of illness and disability often emphasise hope and positive thinking. This acclaimed examination of the genre of the illness narrative questions that upbeat approach. Author Kathlyn Conway, a three-time cancer survivor and herself the author of an illness memoir, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease.