Pathographics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community

Book Overview

Culturally powerful ideas of normalcy and deviation, individual responsibility, and what is medically feasible shape the ways in which we live with illness and disability. The essays in this volume show how illness narratives expressed in a variety of forms--biographical essays, fictional texts, cartoons, graphic novels, and comics--reflect on and grapple with the fact that these human experiences are socially embedded and culturally shaped.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271086173
• ISBN13: 9780271086170
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"