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Author Banerjee, Mita, author

Title Medical humanities in American Studies : life writing, narrative medicine, and the power of autobiography / Mita Banerjee
Published Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 390 pages)
Series American studies (Munich, Germany), 0178-1987 ; volume 292
American studies (Munich, Germany) ; volume 292. 0178-1987
Contents Cover; Title-Page; Imprint; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Temporalities in Life Writing: Tito Mukhopadhyay's ""Beyond the Silence; 3 Bollywood Film and the Borders of Disability: Shah Rukh Khan Meets the American President; 4 "An Anthropologist on Mars": Temple Grandin's ""Thinking in Pictures; 5 "Living Autobiographically" in Modern Dance: Concepts of Aging in Mikhail Baryshnikov's "HeartBeat: mb" Performance; 6 "Like a Hole in the Head": Comedy and Parkinson's Disease in Michael J. Fox's Autobiographies ""Always Looking Up"" and ""Lucky Man
7 Writing the Citizen: Growing Up with Down Syndrome in ""Raising Henry"" and ""Count Us In8 ""Blue Hawaii""? Adam Horowitz's Film ""Nuclear Savage"" and Collective Life Writing in the Pacific; 9 Trauma, Repatriation, and Representation: Life Writing as an Alternative Form of Knowledge Production; 10 Sustainability and Indigenous Life Writing Performances: "Dancing Earth" and ""The Cherokee Word for Water; 11 Conclusion; Works Cited; Backcover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Sick in motion pictures.
Sick in literature.
Health in motion pictures.
Health in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine in Literature
Medicine in literature
Health in literature
Health in motion pictures
Sick in literature
Sick in motion pictures
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783825378158
3825378152
3825369064
9783825369064