{"product_id":"the-autobiographical-documentary-in-america-paperback-1","title":"The Autobiographical Documentary in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Lane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNancy Mairs\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability in particular HIV\/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse.\u003cbr\u003eResponding to the recent growth of illness and disability narratives in the United States such works as Juliet Wittman s \u003ci\u003eBreast Cancer Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, John Hockenberry s \u003ci\u003eMoving Violations\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Monette s \u003ci\u003eBorrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, and Lou Ann Walker s \u003ci\u003eA Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family\u003c\/i\u003e Couser addresses questions of both poetics and politics. He examines why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role plot plays in such narratives; how and whether closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser s discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people.\u003cbr\u003eWith its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, \u003ci\u003eRecovering Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Lane is executive director of the Emerson College Los Angeles Center. A filmmaker since 1982, his documentaries include \u003ci\u003eLong Time No See\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWomen of Prague\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBackground Action\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Am Not an Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEast Meets West\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52710070976819,"sku":"9780299176549","price":50.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/LzBTOXAwell3cGxpeUdZZjNvUkI2Zz09_9a79aa90-4509-48ff-87ee-69381bb3e359.webp?v=1763481461","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-autobiographical-documentary-in-america-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}