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Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial; instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. It joins a conversation in Medical Humanities about alternatives to the predominance of narrative and responds to the call for more metaphor literacy and metaphor competence.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Metaphor Use: Strategies and Methods
Susan Sontag: Using Metaphor 'to see more, to hear more, to feel more'
Audre Lorde: Stretching, Risks and Difference
Anatole Broyard: A Style for Being Ill; or, Metaphor 'Light'
David Foster Wallace's Troubled Little Soldier: Narrative and Irony
From Theory to Practice: A Method for Using Metaphor
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
