Writing an Illness Memoir: Counterstories and Memoirs of Well-being

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dc.contributor.advisorManasiadis, Vana
dc.contributor.authorRussell, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-11T22:59:27Z
dc.date.available2020-06-11T22:59:27Z
dc.date.copyright2020
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2020-06-10T07:45:35Z
dc.description.abstractThe exegesis begins by giving background and context to my thesis, The Feeling of Cancer, followed by an analysis of my work centring on my themes, narrative style, and narrative voice. I refer to several theoretical works on illness memoirs, particularly Frank’s The wounded storyteller: body, illness and ethics (2013), Reiffenrath’s Memoirs of well-being: rewriting discourses of illness and disability (2016), and Gosselin’s Memoirs as mirrors: counterstories in contemporary memoir (2011). Other illness/disability memoirs that are used by way of illustration and comparison are Sara Gabriel’s Eating Pomegranates: a memoir of mothers, daughters and genes (2010), Trish Harris’s The Walking Stick Tree (2016), Cory Taylor’s Dying: a memoir (2016), Arthur Frank’s At the Will of the Body: reflections on illness (2002), Kathlyn Conway’s Ordinary life: a memoir of illness (1997) and Diana Wichtel’s Driving to Treblinka: a long search for a lost father (2017).en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/13387
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectWritingen_NZ
dc.subjectIllness memoiren_NZ
dc.subjectCounterstoriesen_NZ
dc.subjectMemoiren_NZ
dc.subjectMemoir of well-beingen_NZ
dc.titleWriting an Illness Memoir: Counterstories and Memoirs of Well-beingen_NZ
dc.typeThesisen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Theses
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Creative Writingen_NZ
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