International audienceNancy Mairs’s autobiographical essays offer an interesting insight into the way vulnerability can shape life writing and redefine it as a genre. The sense of discontinuity experienced by the author, whose multiple sclerosis keeps altering her body in unpredictable ways, is mirrored by her rejection of totalizing forms. Far from the unified, definitive portrait often offered by autobiographers, her essays turn provisionality into a defining feature; drawing from the author’s daily experiences, they question the body / mind dichotomy and other hierarchies that structure western thought, and advocate a more inclusive form of knowledge. In her essays, Nancy Mairs positions herself as a witness. Her vulnerable and marginal ...
The Vulnerable Machine is a book-length collection of poems that explores my ideas of the ill identi...
I will engage with affective experiences of disability that are silenced within dominant discourses ...
Produced by Hawai'i University Affiliated Program on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, H...
Where much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of di...
This article examines two exemplar texts, both memoirs written by mothers about their sons, and disc...
This article is an interview and conversation between disability activist and writer Nancy Mairs, an...
This paper examines the ways in which the disability memoir creates pathways that generate new ways ...
In the first essay of her most recent collection, Waist-High in the World (1997), Nancy Mairs poses ...
This article analyses themes from Christina Crosby’s disability memoir A Body, Undone: Living On aft...
This thesis looks into autobiographical representations of disability and illness in life writing, a...
This study begins with an inquiry into the damaging myths and assumptions that pervade the idea of p...
The Disabled Body investigates disability life-writing and what it reveals about the experience of d...
This dissertation focuses on five contemporary women\u27s autobiographies that each in some way revo...
Because of woman's peculiar relationship to language, and therefore to the means of comprehending an...
The Disabled Body investigates disability life-writing and what it reveals about the experience of d...
The Vulnerable Machine is a book-length collection of poems that explores my ideas of the ill identi...
I will engage with affective experiences of disability that are silenced within dominant discourses ...
Produced by Hawai'i University Affiliated Program on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, H...
Where much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of di...
This article examines two exemplar texts, both memoirs written by mothers about their sons, and disc...
This article is an interview and conversation between disability activist and writer Nancy Mairs, an...
This paper examines the ways in which the disability memoir creates pathways that generate new ways ...
In the first essay of her most recent collection, Waist-High in the World (1997), Nancy Mairs poses ...
This article analyses themes from Christina Crosby’s disability memoir A Body, Undone: Living On aft...
This thesis looks into autobiographical representations of disability and illness in life writing, a...
This study begins with an inquiry into the damaging myths and assumptions that pervade the idea of p...
The Disabled Body investigates disability life-writing and what it reveals about the experience of d...
This dissertation focuses on five contemporary women\u27s autobiographies that each in some way revo...
Because of woman's peculiar relationship to language, and therefore to the means of comprehending an...
The Disabled Body investigates disability life-writing and what it reveals about the experience of d...
The Vulnerable Machine is a book-length collection of poems that explores my ideas of the ill identi...
I will engage with affective experiences of disability that are silenced within dominant discourses ...
Produced by Hawai'i University Affiliated Program on Disabilities, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, H...