Mammographies : The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives /

While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. This book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category the author refers to as mammographies, si...

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Tác giả chính: DeShazer, Mary K. (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Điện tử eBook
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
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Mục lục:
  • Introduction : representing breast cancer in the twenty-first century
  • Post-millennial breast cancer photo-narratives : technologized terrain
  • Audre Lorde's successors : breast cancer narratives as feminist theory
  • Narratives of prophylactic mastectomy : mapping the breast cancer gene
  • Rebellious humor in breast cancer narratives : deflating the culture of optimism
  • New directions in breast cancer photography : documenting women's post-operative bodies
  • Cancer narratives and an ethics of commemoration : Susan Sontag, Annie Leibovitz, and David Rieff
  • Bodies, witness, mourning : reading breast cancer autothanatography
  • Afterword : What remains
  • Appendix : Links to selected breast cancer websites and blogs.