Cancer: Through the eyes of ten women - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 004440980X ISBN 13: 9780044409809

Casa editrice: Pandora, 1996

Riassunto

The contributors to this startingly original collection have two things in common: they all have cancer, and none of them tells a 'conventional cancer story' of heroic defiance in the face of adversity.
No woman who has had cancer continues her life uncharged. In their determination to uncover the complexities and subtleties of cancer truths, the contributors adopt entirely other ways of understanding their experience. Debbie Dickinson imagines herself as music incarnate, as instruments and voices, different selves, combine and conflict. Jackie Stacey confronts the cancer narrative head on - likening it to Hollywood structures with heroes, villains and closures - and looks for a different way to convey her own story. Patricia Duncker examines the anger so often excised from the heroic stories, and unflinchingly looks at the reaction of others to her and her disease. Felly Nkweto Simmonds finds cancer tempering experience, bringing strength but also aloneness. Poet Marilyn Hacker uses a sonnet sequence to convey the emotions her 'Cancer Winter' aroused; Carole Colbour chronicles the painful dissolution and renewal of a marriage.

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The contributors to this startlingly original collection have two things in common: they all have cancer, and none of them tells a ‘conventional cancer story’ of heroic defiance in the face of adversity.

No woman who has had cancer continues her life unchanged. In their determination to uncover the complexities and subtleties of cancer truths, the contributors adopt entirely other ways of understanding their experience. Debbie Dickinson imagines herself as music incarnate, as instruments and voices, different selves, combine and conflict. Jackie Stacey confronts the cancer narrative head on – likening it to Hollywood structures with heroes, villains and closures – and looks for a different way to convey her own story. Patricia Duncker examines the anger so often excised from the heroic stories, and unflinchingly looks at the reaction of others to her and her disease. Felly Nkweto Simmonds finds cancer a tempering experience, bringing strength but also aloneness. Poet Marilyn Hacker uses a sonnet sequence to convey the emotions her ‘Cancer Winter’ aroused; Carole Colbourn chronicles the painful dissolution and renewal of a marriage.

Full of insight and passion, eschewing the anodyne and the clichéd, 'Cancer: through the eyes of ten women' looks at cancer with a new understanding.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pandora
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 004440980X
• ISBN 13: 9780044409809
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Duncker Patricia, Wilson Vicky
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile