Awards
- Winner of 2020 Elli Koengas-Maranda Prize awarded by the American Folklore Society 2022 (United States)
- Winner of 2020 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the American Folklore Society 2022 (United States)
Overview
Engaging with discussions surrounding the culture of disease, Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives explores politically insistent narratives of illness. Resisting the optimism of pink ribbon culture, these stories use anger as a starting place to reframe cancer as a collective rather than an individual problem. Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives discusses the ways emotion, gender, and sexuality, in relation to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, all become complicated, relational, and questioning. Providing theoretically informed close-readings of breast cancer narratives, this study explores how disruption functions both personally and politically. Highlighting a number of contributors in the field of health and gender studies including Barbara Ehrenreich, Kathlyn Conway, Audre Lorde, and Teva Harrison, this work takes into account documentary film, television, and social media as popular mediums used to explore stories of disease.
Full Product Details
Author: Emilia Nielsen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9781487504373
ISBN 10: 1487504373
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 15 January 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Emilia Nielsen explores graphic narrative, comics, and other media to critique breast cancer's cultural impact. Focusing on the performance of patienthood and survivorship in disruptive narratives, Emilia Nielsen clearly argues that personal narratives have the power to 'shift the public discourse' from its long tradition of mystifying the disease. - Jane E. Shultz, Professor, Department of English, Indiana University Emilia Nielsen impressively draws on, and enters in dialogue with, a wide range of recent scholarship addressing illness narratives and challenging mainstream breast cancer culture. Nielsen shows how the study of disruptive breast cancer narratives requires attention to the performativity of patienthood and resistance as well as to the entanglement of emotion, gender, and sexuality. - Stella Bolaki, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent
"""Emilia Nielsen explores graphic narrative, comics, and other media to critique breast cancer's cultural impact. Focusing on the performance of patienthood and survivorship in disruptive narratives, Emilia Nielsen clearly argues that personal narratives have the power to 'shift the public discourse' from its long tradition of mystifying the disease.""--Jane E. Shultz, Professor, Department of English, Indiana University ""Emilia Nielsen impressively draws on, and enters in dialogue with, a wide range of recent scholarship addressing illness narratives and challenging mainstream breast cancer culture. Nielsen shows how the study of disruptive breast cancer narratives requires attention to the performativity of patienthood and resistance as well as to the entanglement of emotion, gender, and sexuality.""--Stella Bolaki, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent"
Author Information
Emilia Nielsen is Assistant Professor in the Health and Society program, Department of Social Science at York University.
