Cholera's Clock: Race, Illness, and Time in the Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe [0.03%]
霍乱之钟：哈丽雅特·比彻·斯托作品中的种族、疾病与时间
Bridget Reilly
Bridget Reilly
This essay considers the various manifestations and temporalities of the choleric body in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Dred. Stowe's novels attempt to distinguish brutal forms of resource extraction on the southern plantati...
Love in the Time of Polio: Sound, Sickness, and Stigma in Philip Roth's Nemesis [0.03%]
菲利普·罗斯小说《涅米斯》中的声音、疾病与污名化
Bronwen McVeigh
Bronwen McVeigh
Philip Roth's novel Nemesis follows Jewish gym teacher Bucky Cantor as he unravels in the wake of a polio epidemic. Barred from fighting in WWII due to poor eyesight, Bucky attempts to atone for this self-perceived failure of masculinity by...
How to Be Happy in America: Clifford Whittingham Beers's A Mind That Found Itself and the Making of Mental Health [0.03%]
在美国如何获得快乐：克拉福德•惠特威斯姆•比尔斯的《找到自我之心灵》与心理健康观念的形成过程
Christian R Gelder
Christian R Gelder
Clifford Whittingham Beers's A Mind That Found Itself (1908) was the literary spark that inaugurated the amorphous mental hygiene movement in the first decades of the twentieth century. Despite the book's relative obscurity in discussions o...
The Curative Power of Trust: Manhood and Medicine in the Fiction of S. Weir Mitchell [0.03%]
互信的疗效力：S·韦尔·米切尔小说中的男性观与医学观
Mallory Szymanski
Mallory Szymanski
The medical field was contested terrain in the late nineteenth century as women doctors, patent medicine producers, home health care guides, and emerging specializations jockeyed for professional legitimacy and customers. The widespread con...
"Cell Lines" and "Syphilitics": A Critical Investigation into Medical Racism, Rhetorical Dehumanization, and Health Genres [0.03%]
“细胞系”与“梅毒患者”：对医学种族主义、修辞去人性化和健康文类的批判性调查
Sara V Press
Sara V Press
This essay investigates rhetorical dehumanization in the US related to systemic racism, sexism, and classism. While I revisit well-known cases of medical exploitation in the stories of Henrietta Lacks and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, I exam...
Jess Libow
Jess Libow
This paper examines contemporary literature by women writers with chronic illnesses to consider how both the lived experience and metaphor of autoimmunity structure ideas about self-care. Poetry and life writing by Meghan O'Rourke interroga...
Ecopathographies and Latinx Literature: Ecocritical Turns in Literature and Medicine and Medical/Health Humanities [0.03%]
生态文学与拉丁裔文学：文学与医学及医疗/健康人文中的生态批评转向
Geovani Ramírez
Geovani Ramírez
In this project, I read Cherríe Moraga's acclaimed play Heroes and Saints as an ecopathography, a genre identified by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, to illustrate how Latinx literary depictions of labor should be understood as creative, cultural, ...
A Case for the Literary Eco-Crip: (Re)Producing Disability and Nature in Richard Powers's Bewilderment [0.03%]
论文学生态残障人士的必要性——理查德·鲍尔斯《困惑》中的残疾与自然形象问题
Nicola Simonetti
Nicola Simonetti
Inspired by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara's call for more scholarship at the intersection of Critical Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities, this article offers an eco-crip analysis of Richard Powers's Bewilderment (2021),...
Visual Satire and Covid-19 in the Comics of Billingsley, Bell, and Obuobi [0.03%]
漫画中的视觉讽刺与新冠——Billingsley、Bell和Obuobi的作品实例分析
Michael A Chaney
Michael A Chaney
This essay tracks how elements of satire and seriality are used across select examples of comics by Black-identified author-artists-Ray Billingsley's Curtis, Darrin Bell's Candorville, and diary comics and social media posts by Shirlene Obu...
Suzanne LaLonde
Suzanne LaLonde
The world is rife with protesters standing in defiance against war, sexism, racism, and social, economic, and environmental injustices. Could protests such as these represent post-traumatic expressions? Are they symptoms of traumatic experi...