Toward Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Toronto Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2025
- ISBN 9781487559427
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 229x152x25 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 illustrations 700
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Long description:
Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies bridges the gap between literary studies and health humanities, highlighting the transformative power of storytelling and the significance of the physical act of writing. From embodied narratives to cultural and historical contexts, this collection seeks to reshape our understanding of disease and illness.
Rooted in the belief that writing is a physically demanding process, the contributing authors explore the possibilities and limitations of embodied narratives through somatic experiences, challenging dominant perspectives on health, illness, and medicalization. In doing so, they address critical issues of representation, power dynamics in the medical field, and the relationship between literary form and health-care discourse.
Drawing on the principles of narrative medicine through the lens of literary studies, the book emphasizes the importance of subjectivity, empathy, and introspection. Embodied Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies amplifies the voices of marginalized communities and sparks critical discussions on social justice, health equity, and patient advocacy.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Embodying Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies: An Introduction
Eftihia Mihelakis and Lucille Toth
Part I: Theorizing Embodied Health and Illness Narrative
1. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Literary Fiction: Bridging Biomedical Sciences and Health Humanities
Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juárez and Louise Toutée
2. The “Villainous Obstinacy and Ugliness” of “a Body of Facts”: The Creation of the Character of Alexis Saint-Martin by His Surgeon, Dr. William Beaumont
Maxime Raymond Bock
3. A Material Turn of “Japs” in John Okada’s No-No Boy
Kim Chang-Hee
Part II: Queering Embodied Health Narratives
4. Vaccination, Pandemics, and Fear in the Now
Sander L. Gilman
5. The Embodied Experience of Queer Moments: Crossing the Symptomatic Aesthetics of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Hervé Guibert, and David Wojnarowicz
Benjamin Gagnon-Chainey
6. Positive Status/Positive Space: The Opportunity of Disclosure
Eric Jorgensen
Part III: Exploring Practice-Based Embodied Health Narratives
7. Decolonial Feminist Acts of Health/Care in Senegalese Urban Arts
Julie Van Dam
8. “We Are Not Waiting”: When Patients Become Medical Innovators
Aude Bandini and Jonathan Garfinkel
9. Embodied Books: Sensing Health-Care Experiences in Artists’ Books
Darian Goldin Stahl
10. The Otherness of Fat: An Intersectional Psychotherapy Story
Hilary Offman
Afterword
Contributors
Index
