Women (re)writing illness as their own /

An exploration of the ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own to challenge and interrogate illness.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Spear, Rachel N. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Rachel N. Spear
  • Writing in the background: storying professional and bodily liminality / Elise Dixon and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer
  • Mothering in-between: mothers creating narratives of breast cancer / Justine Dymond
  • "Envy" in others: responding to (literary) cancer treatments / Jocelyn Williams
  • Chronic poetics and the poetry of chronic illness (in a global pandemic) / Emilia Nielsen
  • Tightened in a difficult union: recounting illness in Amelia Rosselli's War variations / Federica Santini
  • The reader in the labyrinth of Susan E. King's Treading the maze / Cynthia Northcutt Malone
  • "You learn from the part of the story you focus on": narrating queer trauma in Hannah Gadsby's Nanette / Sarah Smith and Christopher Bennett
  • Beyond Gubar's debulked self: re-reading, re-writing, and re-presenting cancer / Rachel N. Spear.