Notes from the Body: Health, Illness, Trauma - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869145321 ISBN 13: 9781869145323

Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

This book was conceptualised prior to the global reckoning with 'this mortal body' unleashed by the Covid pandemic. It is an attempt to (re)turn attention to the body as that through which so much of our humanness is experienced, mediated, enjoyed, suffered, understood and expressed. But Covid forcibly returned us to the body in ways that none of us could ever have imagined. Perhaps Notes from the Body could not be more timely. The variety of possible bodies for which the contributors seek a voice reminds us of the multiple ways in which we may be human. Through various creative forms, the pieces in this volume present the body as, among other things: sick, violated, racialised, healed, performing, ageing, (multiply) gendered, spiritual, abused, 'disabled', broken, sexual, animalised, medical, controlled, interrupted, failing, rejected and abject. Several themes recur: humanisation and dehumanisation; the loss or recovery of agency; dignity and humiliation; violation of the bounds of self; the integrity or wholeness of the body; the body's betrayal; and mourning or celebrating the body.

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Duncan Brown is Professor of English in the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape.

Kobus Moolman is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of the Western Cape.

Nkosinathi Sithole was, until recently, Associate Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, until he resigned to focus full-time on his writing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1869145321
• ISBN 13: 9781869145323
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Herausgeber: Brown Duncan, Moolman Kobus, Sithole Nkosinathi
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande