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Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Own
Description
Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Own illuminates ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own-spaces that interrogate illness, challenge restitution (re)constructions, and work within and around various limitations associated with women writing illness.
Bridging trauma studies with women's studies, this collection blends creative writing and literary studies to explore how illness can weigh on the process of writing. The chapters examine narrative products to better understand how women write illnesses in relation to identity (re)constructions, how they challenge triumphant tropes, how they work within and beyond narrative and linguistic limitations, how the very metaphors and/or genres selected work to aid in their narrating processes, and how their writing acts and products work in conjunction with their illness and (sometimes) healing journeys.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rachel N. Spear (Francis Marion University, USA)
1. Writing in the Background: Storying Professional and Bodily Liminality
Elise Dixon (California State University-Monterey Bay, USA)and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
2. Mothering In-Between: Mothers Creating Narratives of Breast Cancer
Justine Dymond (Springfield College, USA)
3. “Envy” in Others: Responding to (Literary) Cancer Treatments”
Jocelyn Williams (St. Mary's University, USA)
4. Chronic Poetics and the Poetry of Chronic Illness (in a Global Pandemic)
Emilia Nielsen (University in Toronto, Canada)
5. Tightened in a Difficult Union: Recounting Illness in Amelia Rosselli's War Variations
Federica Santini (Kennesaw State University, USA)
6. The Reader in the Labyrinth of Susan E. King's Treading the Maze
Cynthia Northcutt Malone (Saint John's University, USA)
7. “You Learn from the Part of the Story You Focus On”: Narrating Queer Trauma in Hannah Gadsby's Nanette
Sarah Smith (University of Toronto, Canada) and Christopher Bennett (Queen's University, Canada)
8. Beyond Gubar's Debulked Self: Re-Reading, Re-Writing, and Re-Presenting Cancer
Rachel N. Spear (Francis Marion University, USA)
Product details
| Published | 08 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781978759534 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 6 B/W illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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