Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781399500883
,
9781399500890
,
9781399500869
Serie:
Contemporary cultural studies in illness, health and medicine
Inhalt:
This title argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial; instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure.
Anmerkung:
Previously issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023)
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781399500869
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781399500869
Sprache:
Englisch
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