UID:
almahu_9949534947202882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781399500883
,
9781399500890
Series Statement:
Contemporary cultural studies in illness, health and medicine
Content:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2022.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781399500869
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781399500883/type/BOOK
