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The Invading Body: Reading Illness Autobiographies

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Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. Yet autobiographical criticism--an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship--has lagged behind contemporary queries about the embodied self. In The Invading Body, Einat Avrahami corrects this deficiency by analyzing the genre of terminal i ...more
Hardcover , 224 pages
Published November 1st 2007 by University of Virginia Press (first published 2007)
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