Search Results for life-writing

... This chapter considers disability life-writing and poetry that navigates the health/care infrastructural landscape of the 2010s, anchored by the passage in 2010 of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Looking to Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s 2019 poetry and performance text collection...

... This chapter addresses the identity of the mysterious narrator of Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It traces Yunior de las Casas’s artistic coming of age, his Künstlerroman, arguing that what emerges in his narrative is an aesthetics of artistic consumption, which reflects Díaz’s...

... life writing healing surrogate family disidentification exile ...

... disability life-writing healthcare friendship queer of color ...

... utopias biography political feminist life writing about political activism ...

... life writing historiography father-daughter relationships “Four Women” “Mississippi Goddam” ...

... disability justice healthcare life-writing queer of color Affordable Care Act ...

... This chapter examines the life writings of Nazr Sajjad Hyder that were serialized over a period of twenty-one years from 1942 to 1963 in Tahzib-e Niswan and Ismat . In particular, it demonstrates that instead of producing a single autobiography, the writing of Nazr’s self in public has taken...

... frankness life/death poison alter worlds writing ...

... writers’ collective writing workshop peasant writers everyday life ...

... these dialogues as Native Hawaiian epistemologies. This unique archive showcases a participatory life-writing exchange and the avenues in which trauma itself performs as the dialogic. Through an analysis of the students' life-writing texts, which are direct responses to the narratives of memory, pain, and abuse...

... I look at utopias and their shadows and try to affirm the political life without any illusion that one can know the long future of any political act. Uncertainty always has an autobiography attached. As a young child, I had dyslexia and couldn’t immediately read or write. Perversely, these two...

... The epilogue ventures into the territory of personal narrative, relaying the author’s own disabled, femme-of-color dreams of infrastructure. It describes her experiences tending to her best friend during end-stage cancer care. The author reflects on how queer-of-color and disability life-writing...

... If ethnography is the writing of life in its varied worlds, what forms must it take in addressing itself to the escalating and varied forms of mass death? This chapter explores the death of form(s) as an analogue for writing about mass death. It revisits a vexed conjuncture between ethnography...