Opowiadać i działać
To Tell and to Act

On the Social Aspect of Illness Narratives

Author(s): Marta Zambrzycka
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: experience of disease; social activism; literature; social influence
Summary/Abstract: This article concerns three Ukrainian texts about the experience of disease, as well as the social activism undertaken by the authors of these texts. It shows how literature can become an activity that helps people suffering from various diseases and how, with the help of a literary text, one can change social awareness and effect changes in attitudes, beliefs and behaviour.

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