(P)rescription Narratives : Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (Interventions in Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture)

Peebles Tavera, Stephanie

Edinburgh University Press（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474493208
• DDC分類 813.0099287

Full Description

(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a period of censorship in American history. In a Crip Affect reading of woman-authored medical fiction from the Comstock law era, this book astutely argues that women writers of medical fiction practice storytelling as a form of narrative medicine that prescribes various forms of healing as an antidote to the shame engineered by an American culture of censorship. Woman-authored medical fiction exposes the limitations of social construction and materiality in conversations about the female body since subject formation relies upon multiple force relations that shape and are shaped by one another in ongoing processes that do not stop despite our efforts to interpret cultural artifacts. These multiple failures to censor, to resist, to interpret open up a space for negotiating how we engage the world with greater empathy.

Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction

1. Crip Medicine: Environmental Health and the Matter of Hysteria

2. Listen for the New Man: From Narrative Prosthesis to Narrative Medicine

3. Kinetic Medicine: Superposition of Black Female Subjectivity Before the Law

4. Affective Fear: Vulnerability and Risk in Anti-VD Campaign Counternarratives

Conclusion: Medical Theater: The Birth of Anti-Lynching Plays and Reproductive Justice

Bibliography

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