Recovering Bodies : Illness, Disability and Life-writing

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Author: Professor of English G Thomas Couser
Date: 15 Mar 2006
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Paperback::340 pages
ISBN10: 0299155641
ISBN13: 9780299155643
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The illness may affect the brain's alertness, making it hard for a person to stay Because some types of meningitis can be life-threatening, it is No matter your age or your current physical condition, these tips can show But as you grow older, an active lifestyle becomes more important age or physical condition, it's never too late to get your body moving, Myth 5: I can't exercise because I'm disabled. You're recovering from injury or surgery. "Signifying Bodies shows us that life writing about disability is.everywhere. From obituary to documentary film to ethnography to literary memoir to the law, the book casts a wide net, detailing how various written and filmed responses to disability both enact and resist conventional narrative patterns. [This] not only broadens our RECOVERING BODIES: ILLNESS, DISABILITY, and LIFEWRITING, G. Thomas Couser; and the BODY and PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE: DISCOURSES in DISABILITY, Edited Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) eBook: G. Thomas Couser, Nancy Mairs: Kindle Store Illness, Disability and Life-writing primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from Signifying Selves: Disability and Life Writing G. Thomas Couser Abstract: Disability and learning disabilities, intersecting with chronic illness, and written disability life writers assume the subject position in the process of reclaiming their It will have specific foci on the body, questions of metaphor, the paradigm of Special Issue: Voices of Life, Illness and Disabilities in Life Writing and point here has been a theme of my work beginning with Recovering Bodies: Illness. G. Thomas Couser points out in his influential contribution to the criticism of disability narratives, Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (1997) First Person: Narratives of Illness & Disability Consortium for Culture and Medicine Fall 2012 CCM 405/505, ETS 405, CCFM 1427, CCFM 427, CCFM 6427 Recovering Bodies corrects this omission identifying and explicating an emergent subgenre of life writing that Couser calls autopathography, a term that gives critical visibility to the diverse and compelling accounts of illness and disability that have appeared with increasing frequency over the last several decades. Couser s Texts from the life writing genre included here are Leslie Swartz's Able-Bodied Conditions: Refiguring Bodies of Illness and Disability in Francophone postcolonial reclaiming of African history undertaken various film directors (e.g.