Writing Contested Illness

Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvChloe R. Green,Australian National University) Green, Chloe R. (Lecturer in English,Chloe R Green

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Intervening in the gnarled lineage of gender, genre and medicine, Writing Contested Illness investigates how uncertainty, doubt and dismissal, the key features of medical contestation, are mediated and transformed in women's experimental illness narratives. It discusses how a range of autobiographical experimentation in emerging and increasingly common subgenres like autofiction, autotheory, experimental memoir and the lyric essay, are creating productive new avenues for contested illnesses to be represented. These illnesses, which range in this book across hysteria, eating disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme disease, have been subject to constrictive medical practices, rendering the conditions illegitimate, under-studied and under-diagnosed. In observing how such narratives identify the rifts caused by medicalised contestation and identify key sites of repair within this sphere, this book argues that experimental life writing can be its own first-hand, affective and embodied source of medical knowledge.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-30
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine
Antal sidor208
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399534406

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AcknowledgementsSeries Editor's PrefaceIntroduction: Contested Illnesses and Autobiographical Experimentation1. Illness as/and Femininity: Haunted Inheritances in the Contemporary Hysteria Memoir2. Gut Feelings: The Empathy of Disordered Eating in Chris Kraus’s Aliens & Anorexia and Amélie Nothomb’s The Life of Hunger3. Rewriting Relationality: Care and the Familial Bonds of Illness in Alice Hattrick’s Ill Feelings and Marianne Brooker’s Intervals 4. Fragments, Lists and White Space: Fibromyalgia and Forms of Sympathy in Amy Berkowitz’s and Sonya Huber’s Lyric Essays5. ‘Living in Uncertainty Was My Lot’: Porochista Khakpour’s and Meghan O’Rourke’s Chronic Lyme MemoirsConclusion: COVID-19, Long COVID and Hope for a Sick FutureReferencesIndex

How do women give voice to experiences of chronic illness which trouble or elide diagnosis, confound biomedical certainties and are the subject of enduring controversy? In this brilliant first book, Chloe R. Green shows how the formal features of experimental literary life writing play a critical role in the generation of new knowledge about contested illness. As compassionate as it is razor-sharp, Writing Contested Illness will reshape our understanding of what illness narratives can be and achieve.