Megan Crowley-Matoka
Megan Crowley-Matoka
What might ethnography-as both practice and text-offer for thinking about and with non-narrative forms of pain representation? Ethnography operates as an inherently fragmentary, episodic form of knowledge-making: the central acts of observi...
Susannah B Mintz
Susannah B Mintz
Recent studies of pain have disputed the idea that pain eludes representation in language. Where these have largely focused on the experience of pain, my paper examines the epistemological function of pain in crime fiction, a genre that by ...
Vehement Experiences: The Inscription and Description of Delusion in Nineteenth-century French Asylums [0.03%]
激烈体验：19世纪法国精神病院中的幻觉刻写与描述
Javier Moscoso
Javier Moscoso
This essay explores the differences in the narrative forms of mental illness, depending on whether the sources consulted come from published medical histories or archival material. Based on the study of dozens of clinical cases contained in...
Strange and Tender Fracture: Flash Illness Writing, Chronic Pain, and Alternatives to "Resilience" [0.03%]
怪异而温柔的裂痕：闪光病态写作、慢性疼痛以及“韧性”的替代品
Sara Wasson
Sara Wasson
How might flash writing be useful in communicating chronic pain? This question drove the UKRI AHRC-funded project Translating Chronic Pain at Lancaster University (2017-2019), which focused on the potential of fragmentary, episode-driven fo...
Authoring Pain: Fragmentation and Autofiction in Maggie Nelson's Bluets [0.03%]
痛苦的创作：玛吉·内勒森《蓝丝》中的碎片化与自传小说技巧
Maria Vaccarella
Maria Vaccarella
This article analyzes Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) as a prominent example of the fragmentary narration that can result from the experience of pain and loss. I demonstrate how Nelson's disparate ruminations on her obsession for the color bl...
Katharine Cheston
Katharine Cheston
Storytelling is good for us-or so we are told. This article examines two memoirs, by Hilary Mantel and Susanna Kaysen, in which narrating experiences of gynecological pain provokes shame and deepens pain. By attending to shame as a textual ...
"Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss [0.03%]
“你的小白背心，未穿”：当代失去母亲的悼亡诗
Anne Whitehead
Anne Whitehead
This essay asks whether poetry can articulate the experience of maternal loss, paying particular attention to questions of form. Focusing on two British poetry collections, Rebecca Goss's Her Birth (2013) and Karen McCarthy Woolf's An Aviar...
The Pain of Residential Schools in Canada: An Analysis of Silence and Narrative [0.03%]
加拿大寄宿学校的痛苦：沉默与叙述的分析
Wade Paul
Wade Paul
In operation for over a century, the Indian Residential School system is a painful part of Canadian history. Through the theoretical approaches to pain envisioned by Elaine Scarry, Javier Moscoso, and Ilit Ferber, this article examines how ...
Anguish in Language: Pain as a Biocultural Experience in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric [0.03%]
痛苦的语言——克拉乌迪娅·朗妮恩《美国民谣》中的疼痛的生物文化体验
Daniel Direkoglu
Daniel Direkoglu
Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) represents physical pain as a multidimensional experience entwined with history, language, and culture. By linking descriptions of anti-Black racist encounters with the imagery of somatic ...
Essaying Pain [0.03%]
试论痛苦
Ann Jurecic
Ann Jurecic
Narrative has long been central to the study of literature about illness, but we err if we assume that memoir and fiction alone depict the embodied experience of physical suffering. Contemporary writers also turn to the essay. In French, es...