Review article
Illness narratives – between personal experience, medical discourse, and cultural practice
Emilia Mazurek
orcid.org/0000-0002-2132-8756
; Wroclaw University of Technology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Poland
Abstract
This article provides an overview of selected academic studies of first-person narratives of illness. The review splits between a discussion of literary and visual representations of illness. It presents the causes of growth in the number of illness narratives that are available in the public space. Furthermore, the paper deals with the problems of representing breast cancer in written stories and photos. It analyzes selected problems of illness memoires written by women afflicted with breast cancer and published in Poland, as well as Polish photographic projects which show the Amazons after treatment.
Keywords
illness narrative; photo narrative; (auto)pathography; breast cancer; Poland
Hrčak ID:
141116
URI
Publication date:
10.7.2015.
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