The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature

by Nina Schmidt

Book Overview

Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary disability studies approach.

In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640141340
• ISBN13: 9781640141346
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"