Naracije o bolesti – između osobnog iskustva, medicinskog diskursa i kulturalne prakse

This article provides an overview of selected academic studies of first-person narratives of illness. The review splits between a discussion of literary and visual representations of illness. It presents the causes of growth in the number of illness narratives that are available in the public space. Furthermore, the paper deals with the problems of representing breast cancer in written stories and photos. It analyzes selected problems of illness memoires written by women afflicted with breast cancer and published in Poland, as well as Polish photographic projects which show the Amazons after treatment.Članak pruža pregled odabranih akademskih studija autobiografskih naracija o bolesti, uključujući raspravu o literarnim i vizualnim reprezentacijama bolesti. Razmatraju se uzroci porasta broja naracija o bolesti u javnom prostoru te pitanja reprezentacije raka dojke u pisanim pričama i fotografijama. Analiziraju se odabrani problemi memoarskih zapisa žena oboljelih od raka dojke u Poljskoj, kao i poljski fotografski projekti koji prikazuju Amazonke nakon tretmana