On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs

A Critical Anthology
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29542-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 343 g

Reihe: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mintz, S.

Johnson, M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Hello and Goodbye - Nancy Mairs PART I: INTRODUCTION; OR TWO WAYS IN On Writing toward Trust - Susannah Mintz On Feminist Intellectual History - Merri Lisa Johnson PART II: NEW ESSAYS On Difficult Gifts: A Biographical Portrait of Nancy Mairs - Hayley Mitchell Haugen On Writing in a Collaborative Spirit: Nancy Mairs's Ethic of Community - Susan Cumings On Depression Narratives: 'Hence, into the dark, we write.' - Hilary Clark On the Rhetoric of Gloom and Joy: In Turbulent Love with the World in A Troubled Guest - Susannah Mintz On Nancy's Husband George Masculinity, Disability, and Sex after Cancer in Remembering the Bone House and Waist High in the World - Margaret Torrell On Marriage, Church, and Being a Feminist Catholic Sacraments of the Body in Ordinary Time - Jenny Christine Bangsund PART III: FOUNDATIONAL STATEMENTS Autopathography: Women, Illness, and Life-writing - G. Thomas Couser 'Making up the Stories as We Go Along': Men, Women, and Narratives of Disability - Madonne Miner Transforming the Tale: The Auto/Body/ographies of Nancy Mairs - Susannah Mintz Dismembering the Heterosexual Imaginary: The Infidelity Narrative in Nancy Mairs's Remembering the Bone House - Merri Lisa Johnson

Über Autor(innen)

MERRI LISA JOHNSON is Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and an Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate, USA.

SUSANNAH B. MINTZis an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at Skidmore College, USA.