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This book was conceptualised prior to the global reckoning with 'this mortal body' unleashed by the Covid pandemic. It is an attempt to (re)turn attention to the body as that through which so much of our humanness is experienced, mediated, enjoyed, suffered, understood and expressed. But Covid forcibly returned us to the body in ways that none of us could ever have imagined. Perhaps Notes from the Body could not be more timely. The variety of possible bodies for which the contributors seek a voice reminds us of the multiple ways in which we may be human. Through various creative forms, the pieces in this volume present the body as, among other things: sick, violated, racialised, healed, performing, ageing, (multiply) gendered, spiritual, abused, 'disabled', broken, sexual, animalised, medical, controlled, interrupted, failing, rejected and abject. Several themes recur: humanisation and dehumanisation; the loss or recovery of agency; dignity and humiliation; violation of the bounds of self; the integrity or wholeness of the body; the body's betrayal; and mourning or celebrating the body.
Duncan Brown is Professor of English in the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape.Kobus Moolman is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape.Nkosinathi Sithole was, until recently, Associate Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, until he resigned to focus full-time on his writing.
ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 The Darkness of Covid-DeathChapter 2 ArchiteuthisChapter 3 SurvivorChapter 4 TheftChapter 5 It's when everything seems to be falling apartChapter 6 Notes by a Mother on Bipolar DisorderChapter 7 Notes from an Archive of the Body in MovementChapter 8 'Between Substance and Shadow': Investigations into the Cynanthropy of Gary the DogChapter 9 World Remaking: Visual Impairment and the Process of Somatic ReorientationChapter 10 One Body, Different MindsChapter 11 White FlightChapter 12 Lines Land SlantChapter 13 Finding the Words in Ten MovementsChapter 14 Lights Out!Chapter 15 Staring Death in the Eye: Revisiting the Tribulations and Joys of Hospitalisation in Post-apartheid South AfricaChapter 16 UnmadeChapter 17 For My FatherChapter 18 PhotographsChapter 19 Cancer Survivor around My Mother's NeckChapter 20 LegoChapter 21 It's Only a QuestionChapter 22 Alice, in the Waiting RoomContributors