Description:
A collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability.
Brief description: Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff is Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and academic lead of the 2016-2021 PathoGraphics research project.
Review Quotes:
"This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines textual and graphic representations of illness, disability, and pain, describing how the narratives in question use the aesthetics of their medium to embrace contention and community. The authors reclaim ground previously ceded to traditional paradigms and in the process liberate the mind, the body, and the text."
--MK Czerwiec, author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371