Memoirs of Well-Being —— Rewriting Discourses of Illness and Disability

----- 幸福回忆录：重写疾病和残疾的话语

ISBN: 9783839435465 出版年：2016 页码：320 Reiffenrath, Tanja transcript-Verlag

As the body politics of life writing in the United States change, illness and disability memoirs receive considerable attention. Although these narratives are framed by a lack of health, they abundantly present health and do so beyond its binary relationship to the pathological. This book departs from previous scholarship by bringing into focus the writers' representations of cure, recovery, and healing as well as their reluctance to bring closure to their narratives and align their stories with traditional notions of health. These memoirs thus partake in the construction of alternative narratives of illness and disability.