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The Invading Body: Reading Illness Autobiographies
Einat Avrahami
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Description for The Invading Body: Reading Illness Autobiographies
Paperback. Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. This book states that yet, autobiographical criticism - an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship - has lagged behind queries about the embodied self. It analyzes the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; DSK; VFJB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 349.
Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. Yet autobiographical criticism - an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship - has lagged behind contemporary queries about the embodied self. In ""The Invading Body"", Einat Avrahami corrects this deficiency by analyzing the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. These personal narratives challenge the world of self-writing in their power to question the assumption that autobiography - and the body - are products of cultural constructs and discursive practices. Their self-disclosures of symptoms, disabilities, and the physical and psychological pains of treatment, especially when ... Read more
Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. Yet autobiographical criticism - an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship - has lagged behind contemporary queries about the embodied self. In ""The Invading Body"", Einat Avrahami corrects this deficiency by analyzing the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. These personal narratives challenge the world of self-writing in their power to question the assumption that autobiography - and the body - are products of cultural constructs and discursive practices. Their self-disclosures of symptoms, disabilities, and the physical and psychological pains of treatment, especially when ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926650
SKU
V9780813926650
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About Einat Avrahami
Einat Avrahami is Adjunct Professor of English at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
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