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bringing back unexpected memories from my past with cancer, but this year her anniversary slashed into my conscience daily. Suddenly I was afraid and I didn’t know what I was afraid of.
I was given only two weeks to encapsulate the entire notion of the first person in my family to have cancer. My family has always been intimate. The word cancer was foreign to our vocabulary. I only saw glimpses of what it was in the news and in my health textbook.
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Dec 26, 2023 · Whether you’re looking for someone to tell you the cold hard facts, or read a story to lift your spirits, it’s out there. Here 6 remarkable cancer memoirs, each different in tone and story, and each uniquely able to teach, comfort and guide.
Cancer Memoirs as Narrative Strategy: Are Our Stories as Valuable as Our Breasts. Nashwa Lina Khan. This paper aims to investigate the ways narrative strategy can act to dismantle predominant views about breast cancer.
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Picturing Cancer in Graphic Memoir Nancy K. Miller 1. “Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer,” read a recent headline in the New York Times, January 5, 2014. “As heart disease and stroke are beaten back,” reporter George Johnson wrote, “cancer vies to become the final killer.” Johnson is the author of The
This thesis presents the stories of four women with breast cancer, and reflects on the potential insights that these stories provide regarding how these women make meaning from their experiences of breast cancer.
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Oct 29, 2021 · PDF | This paper argues that Anne Boyer’s The Undying (2019) reorients the writing of illness memoirs, in particular the breast cancer memoir. Thinking... | Find, read and cite all the...
