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Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness

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Description for Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JP; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.

Creative expression inspired by disease has been criticized as a celebration of victimhood, unmediated personal experience, or just simply bad art. Despite debate, however, memoirs written about illness—particularly AIDS or cancer—have proliferated since the late twentieth century and occupy a highly influential place on the cultural landscape today.

 

In Treatments, Lisa Diedrich considers illness narratives, demonstrating that these texts not only recount and interpret symptoms but also describe illness as an event that reflects wider cultural contexts, including race, gender, class, and sexuality. Diedrich begins this theoretically rigorous analysis by offering examples of midcentury memoirs of tuberculosis. She then looks ... Read more

 

Through these records of intensely personal yet universal experience, Diedrich demonstrates how language both captures and fails to capture these “scenes of loss” and how illness narratives affect the literary, medical, and cultural contexts from which they arise. Finally, by examining the ways in which the sick speak and are spoken for, she argues for an ethics of failure—the revaluation of loss as creating new possibilities for how we live and die.

 

Lisa Diedrich is assistant professor of women’s studies at Stony Brook University.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816646982
SKU
V9780816646982
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