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Illness as Narrative de Ann Jurecic

Illness as Narrative: Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Autor Ann Jurecic
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2012

Adresat studenților în litere, cercetătorilor din domeniul științelor umaniste medicale și practicienilor din sănătate interesați de medicina narativă, volumul Illness as Narrative oferă un cadru critic riguros pentru înțelegerea modului în care suferința personală devine literatură. Observăm cum Ann Jurecic navighează printre provocările estetice ale genului, întrebându-se dacă relatările despre boală pot fi judecate prin aceleași standarde ca ficțiunea sau dacă funcția lor este pur instrumentală, menită să genereze empatie. Textul extinde cadrul propus de Stories of Sickness de Howard Brody prin integrarea unor perspective critice moderne, precum „lectura reparatorie”, și prin analiza impactului tehnologic și social asupra publicării acestor confesiuni. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea nu se limitează la o analiză literară abstractă, ci ancorează discuția în realități istorice concrete: transformarea medicinei într-o industrie, creșterea incidenței bolilor cronice și democratizarea auto-publicării. În contextul operei sale, această lucrare continuă interesul pentru funcția socială a scrisului explorat în Changing Minds, unde analiza eseistica feminină, mutând acum focusul pe fragilitatea corpului uman. Merită menționat că Jurecic nu respinge subiectivitatea pacienților, ci pledează pentru o practică academică ce este în egală măsură plină de compasiune și critică, oferind instrumente metodologice pentru predarea narativului în universități.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822961901
ISBN-10: 0822961903
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Composition, Literacy, and Culture

De ce să citești această carte

Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care poveștile despre boală dau sens mortalității și fragilității umane. Este o resursă esențială pentru cei care doresc să depășească simpla lectură empatică, oferind un aparat critic solid pentru analiza „life writing”. Cartea se adresează celor care vor să exploreze intersecția dintre critică literară, etică și practica medicală modernă.

Despre autor

Ann Jurecic este profesor asociat la Universitatea Rutgers, specializată în literatură și medicină, eseistică și compoziție literară. Interesul său academic se concentrează pe modul în care scrierea și lectura modelează înțelegerea experiențelor umane fundamentale. În lucrarea sa anterioară, Changing Minds, a analizat modul în care cinci scriitoare proeminente au redefinit eseul politic american între 1960 și 2000. În Illness as Narrative, Jurecic își aplică expertiza asupra genului memoriilor medicale, devenind o voce influentă în domeniul emergent al medicinei narative.

Descriere scurtă

For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic disease, the transformation of medicine into big business, the women’s health movement, the AIDS/HIV pandemic, the advent of inexpensive paperbacks, and the rise of self-publishing all contributed to the proliferation of narratives about encounters with medicine and mortality.
      While the illness narrative is now a staple of the publishing industry, the genre itself has posed a problem for literary studies. What is the role of criticism in relation to personal accounts of suffering? Can these narratives be judged on aesthetic grounds? Are they a collective expression of the lost intimacy of the patient-doctor relationship? Is their function thus instrumental—to elicit the reader’s empathy?
      To answer these questions, Ann Jurecic turns to major works on pain and suffering by Susan Sontag, Elaine Scarry, and Eve Sedgwick and reads these alongside illness narratives by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Reynolds Price, and Anne Fadiman, among others. In the process, she defines the subgenres of risk and pain narratives and explores a range of critical responses guided, alternately, by narrative empathy, the hermeneutics of suspicion, and the practice of reparative reading.
       Illness as Narrative seeks to draw wider attention to this form of life writing and to argue for new approaches to both literary criticism and teaching narrative. Jurecic calls for a practice that’s both compassionate and critical. She asks that we consider why writers compose stories of illness, how readers receive them, and how both use these narratives to make meaning of human fragility and mortality.

Recenzii

“Ann Jurecic opens a door. The light that spills through that newly opened door illuminates not just illness and/as narrative but why we read, why we write, and what stories are for. Jurecic nails what is at stake here—truth, intersubjectivity, relation, mortality, and freedom. What a voice. What a vision. What a challenge this book is to literary criticism, to medical practice, to all of us who bleed and yet live.”
—Rita Charon, Columbia University

“There is no greater term of scholarly disparagement than ‘therapeutic.’ Jurecic’s eloquent defense of therapeutic literature is as necessary and humane as the misunderstood illness narrative itself. Promoting mindful listening and sympathetic understanding, this gutsy and levelheaded book performs its own reparative work, restoring care and concern, recognition and response, attention and acknowledgement, healing and hope to our critical lexicon.”
—Diana Fuss, Princeton University

“lllness as Narrative is an innovative work that provides an exemplary model of productive ways to read, interpret, and (by extension) teach literature (autobiography, essays, cultural analyses, fiction, poetry, and blogs) by and about real people with real diseases and disabilities.”
—Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut

“Ann Jurecic’s readings of Sontag, Fadiman, Sedgwick, and Latour carve new pathways between literary theory and illness narratives. Illness as Narrative will refresh your vision, draw you to new texts, and help you teach.”
—Maura Spiegel, coauthor of The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On

“Offers substantive confirmation of the continuing scholarly trends in support of the genre of narrative medicine and for the primary value of the patient’s voice in the practice of medicine. . . . Jurecic is a mindful reader and she successfully provides a succinctly written arc of the emergence of illness narratives in the twentieth century. . . . A must read for all Literature and Medicine courses and certainly will be added to Medical Humanities programs around the country.”
—All Heart Matters

Notă biografică

Ann Jurecic is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.