Illness narratives – between personal experience, medical discourse, and cultural practice
Illness narratives – between personal experience, medical discourse, and cultural practice
Author(s): Emilia MazurekSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Photography, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet
Keywords: illness narrative; photo narrative; (auto)pathographyJ; breast cancer; Poland;
Summary/Abstract: This article provides an overview of selected academic studies of first-person narratives of illness. The review splits between a discussion of literary and visual representations of illness. It presents the causes of growth in the number of illness narratives that are available in the public space. Furthermore, the paper deals with the problems of representing breast cancer in written stories and photos. It analyzes selected problems of illness memoires written by women afflicted with breast cancer and published in Poland, as well as Polish photographic projects which show the Amazons after treatment.
Journal: Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istrazivanja
- Issue Year: 51/2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 48-58
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English