Treatments language, politics, and the culture of illness
Lisa Diedrich considers illness narratives, demonstrating that these texts not only recount symptoms but also describe illness as an event that reflects wider cultural contexts, including race, gender, class, and sexuality. Looking at narratives including Susan Sontag's Illness As Metaphor, Aud...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
c2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798393006719 |
| Sumario: | Lisa Diedrich considers illness narratives, demonstrating that these texts not only recount symptoms but also describe illness as an event that reflects wider cultural contexts, including race, gender, class, and sexuality. Looking at narratives including Susan Sontag's Illness As Metaphor, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's ÒWhite Glasses,Ó Diedrich demonstrates how language both captures and fails to capture these Òscenes of lossÓ. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816654154 |
