On the literary nonfiction of Nancy Mairs: a critical anthology

Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversationthrough a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics. MERRI LISA JOHNSON is Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and an Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate, USA. SUSANNAH B. MINTZ is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at Skidmore College, USA. INDICE: Foreword: Nancy Mairs on Nancy Mairs - PART I: THE WAY IN (TWO INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS) - On Difficult Gifts: A Biographical Portrait of Nancy Mairs - On Counterphobic Displays: A Feminist Cripistemology of Unspeakable Embodiment - PART II: FOUNDATIONAL STATEMENTS - Autopathography: Women, Illness, and Life-writing - 'Making up the Stories as We Go Along': Men, Women, and Narratives of Disability - Transforming the Tale: The Auto/Body/ographies of Nancy Mairs - Dismembering the Heterosexual Imaginary: The Infidelity Narrative inNancy Mairs's Remembering the Bone House - PART III: NEW ESSAYS - On the Rhetoric of Gloom and Joy: In Turbulent Love with the World in A Troubled Guest -On the Carnivalesque: Unruly Bodies in Nancy Mairs' 'On Touching by Accident'- On Depression Narratives: 'Hence, into the dark, we write.. ' - On Nancy's Husband George: Masculinity, Disability, and Sex after Cancer in Remembering the Bone House and Waist High in the World - On Marriage, Church, and Being a Feminist Catholic Sacraments of the Body in Ordinary Time - On Collaboration: Nancy Mairs's Ethic of Community - Afterword: Staring at Nancy Mairs

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11370-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 230
• Fecha Publicación: 13/09/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés