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{"title":"Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean ed. by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati (review)","authors":"Kaitlin Sager","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935843","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean</em> ed. by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Kaitlin Sager (bio) </li> </ul> Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati, eds. <em>Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean</em>. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 424 pp. Hardcover, $140.00. <p>Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati's edited volume, <em>Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean</em>, is an invaluable addition to the body of work on leprosy in the medieval period. Encompassing the overlapping disciplines of history of medicine, <strong>[End Page 225]</strong> cultural history, art history, as well as new findings in bioarchaeology, osteology, and paleopathology owing to innovations in ancient DNA (aDNA) research, this book successfully bridges the gap between the sciences and the humanities in disease studies. By focusing on identity as the central concept in their study, the contributors to this volume manage to dispel oft-repeated myths about medieval leprosy in Western Europe, especially the idea that its sufferers were subjected to complete isolation and institutional neglect and had to resort to mendicancy to survive. With a focus on both institutional and non-institutional constructions of identity around leprosy, the book not only addresses those who suffer from the infection, but also the communities with whom they interacted and to which they claimed membership. <em>Leprosy and Identity</em> is an essential read not only for scholars of the Middle Ages, but for anyone interested in the social history of disease. Its thoroughly researched chapters by scholars from a wide variety of disciplines help to make sense of an illness whose sufferers have been heavily stigmatized and historiographically misrepresented as social pariahs. This research reintegrates leprosy sufferers into complex social and institutional contexts, complicating and problematizing the simplified historical narrative of leprosy as a taboo disease which resulted in social isolation and rejection.</p> <p>Contributors to the volume address leprosy in many different geographical and chronological contexts but remain in conversation with one another by focusing on institutional settings, material histories, and language to better understand the experiences and identities of communities affected by leprosy. The book is comprised of five parts, with one to three chapters in each section. Part 1, \"Approaching Leprosy and Identity,\" contains broad surveys based on geographical, historical, and archaeological data, helping to ground the reader in the historical and religious myths around the origins and initial spread of the infection. In chapter 3, for example, Damien Jeanne ","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise (review)","authors":"Sakshi Srivastava","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935845","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities</em> ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Sakshi Srivastava (bio) </li> </ul> Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise, eds. <em>The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities</em>. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020. 492 pp. Hardback, $280.00. <p>Ever since 2010, when Paul Crawford and colleagues first suggested expanding the purview of medical humanities to include healing practices beyond medicine and carers along with doctors, health humanities has continued to develop as an interdisciplinary field encompassing a variety of approaches and theoretical standpoints.<sup>1</sup> Envisaging a continuation of that perspective, <em>The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities</em> is a meticulous and descriptive collection of articles ranging across theory and praxis that emerge from a wide range of academic interests, practical improvement, and patient requirements, \"engaging with the contributions of those <em>marginalized</em> from the medical humanities.\"<sup>2</sup> The marginalized include patients, their families, non-physician healthcare professionals, educators, and even social workers—those who are often found affected, associated, and subordinated by the institutions of biomedicine. The intellectual and discursive presence of these voices inherently and holistically critiques biomedical notions of self-sufficiency. The collection also embodies the \"co-created,\" \"co-operative,\" and colearning vision of the field for thinking about arts and humanities in healthcare, as opposed to the privileging of intellectual autonomy over non-medical or <em>lived</em> knowledge seen in medical humanities (6). This implies a non-hierarchical and collaborative approach to finding solutions to health-related issues, while changing and problematizing the boundaries of what can be identified and treated as exclusively biomedical problems.</p> <p>In the past, Crawford and colleagues insisted on a more inclusive understanding of health humanities. This collection features that same insistence, but is oriented more towards the results of that inclusion: an array of recent innovations in the field. Reflecting this crucial distinction, the book has been divided into two parts. The first twenty-seven chapters critically assess medicine and healthcare via methodologies <strong>[End Page 236]</strong> from disciplines of the humanities. The first section also acknowledges and addresses the intersectional realities of providing and receiving health (and social) care in conjunction with race, indigeneity, ethnicity, and geographical divisions. This systematic inclusion corresponds to the \"interdisciplinary, inclusive, applied, democratizing and activist approach\" favored by health humanities as a field (3). Using the entanglemen","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books by Peter Fifield (review)","authors":"Jeremy Colangelo","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935844","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books</em> by Peter Fifield <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Jeremy Colangelo (bio) </li> </ul> Peter Fifield. <em>Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. Hardcover, $80.00. <p>Peter Fifield's monograph <em>Modernism and Physical Illness</em> comes out at a time when modernism studies has been re-discovering illness and the body, with major texts like Elizabeth Outka's <em>Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature</em>, Michael Davidson's <em>Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic</em>, and Maren Linett's <em>Bodies of Modernism: Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature</em> showing the steady interest among scholars in this area.<sup>1</sup> Fifield's book is a worthy contribution to the research on illness in modernist literature, and a necessary one as well, for it serves as an important corrective to the broader tendency to see the major canonical works of modernist literature as disembodied, cerebral, and concerned mainly with abstractions. Instead, as Fifield argues, \"illness is a central preoccupation of literary modernism,\" not only in the sense of it being a recurrent topic, but also in the sense of illness helping create literary modernism as it eventually became (1). Modern medical technology, he writes, results in \"a transformation of bodily experience that renders the human subject at once more and less than its antecedents\" (224). Changes in medical technology alter how subjects relate to their bodies, and by extension alter the way those bodies become the subject of art. In chronicling this process, Fifield shows how the medicalized subject is \"both private … and collective,\" at once isolated in the sickbed and plugged into a complex social and technological network (227). Illness and medicine thus played a key role in producing \"modernism's capacity for estranging the world,\" a capacity which is characteristic of the movement (228). <strong>[End Page 229]</strong></p> <p>Fifield frames his book against Virginia Woolf's essay \"On Being Ill,\" where she argues that literature has in general neglected illness. The broad strokes of her argument are likely familiar to the readers of this journal—\"novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid\"<sup>2</sup>—but of special interest here is her subsequent claim that the lack of writing on illness has left authors without a vocabulary to describe it, leading to a retreat into abstraction. Fifield provides ample evidence to the contrary, though in doing so he also hitches his argument to Woolf's, a choice with both benefits and drawbacks. When discussing literature, British literary modernists could indeed divert into the transcendental, but ","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935846","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><em>Kimberly Bain</em> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver. Her most pressing and urgent concerns have consolidated around questions of the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora. She is currently at work on two scholarly monographs. The first, entitled <em>On Black Breath</em>, traces a genealogy of breathing and Blackness in the United States. Her second, <em>Dirt: Soil and Other Dark Matter</em>, turns to dirt for understanding how Blackness has shaped global considerations of the Anthropocene and refused the extractive relations of racial capitalism.</p> <p><em>Jeremy Colangelo</em> studies disability, epistemology, and twentieth-century literature. He is the author of <em>Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature</em> (University of Michigan Press, 2021) and the editor of <em>Joyce Writing Disability</em> (University of Florida Press, 2022) and the cluster <em>The Body Politic in Pain</em> (<em>Modernism/modernity</em>, 2023). He is also a creative writer and published a collection of stories, <em>Beneath the Statue</em>, in 2020.</p> <p><em>Anna Magdalena Elsner</em> is Associate Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her area of expertise is death, dying, and mourning in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, philosophy, and film. She is the author of <em>Mourning and Creativity in Proust</em> (Palgrave, 2017) and co-editor of <em>The Proustian Mind</em> (Routledge, 2022) and <em>Literature and Medicine</em> (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She is principal investigator of a European Research Council project engaging with the aesthetics, laws, and ethics of assisted dying (assistedlab.ch).</p> <p><em>Mia Florin-Sefton</em> is a Lecturer at Columbia University with research interests in modernist and contemporary British and American literature, social reproduction theory, the history of eugenics, and information science. Her academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in <em>Diacritics, Modernism/modernity, Feminist Modernist Studies</em> Print Plus, and <em>Post45</em>, among others. For AY 2023–24 she is also a Public Humanities Fellow with the Humanities Center Initiative, New York.</p> <p><em>Nathan Gray</em> is a physician specializing in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He uses comics to promote empathy, educate others, and explore the ironies of the medical world. His work has been published in the <em>Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, British Medical Journal, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Annals of Interna","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain by Paolo Savoia (review)","authors":"Viktoria von Hoffmann","doi":"10.1353/lm.2024.a935842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935842","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain</em> by Paolo Savoia <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Viktoria von Hoffmann (bio) </li> </ul> Paolo Savoia. <em>Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain</em>. London: Routledge, 2019. 284 pp. Paperback, $51.99. <p>A translated and slightly revised edition of Paolo Savoia's <em>Cosmesi e Chirurgia. Bellezza, dolore e medicina nell'Italia moderna</em> (Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2017), this study follows Gaspare Tagliacozzi's (1545–1599) two-volume scholarly and technical book on the reconstructive surgery of the face, entitled <em>De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem</em> (On the surgical restoration of defects by grafting). The Bolognese physician and anatomist, often held to be the \"father of plastic surgery,\" published this work in 1597 to present and justify the arm-flap method of reconstructing the mutilated parts of the nose. This procedure consisted in cutting a skin flap from the upper region of the arm and grafting it onto the nose, then keeping the two parts—arm and nose—attached together for three weeks before cutting the skin from the arm and shaping the new nose with the use of special molds. No doubt this was an impressive, demanding, and painful surgical procedure. But why would patients have opted to endure such a surgery, and who would have purchased a detailed and illustrated monograph on the subject? How, in short, did a textual tradition about reconstructive surgery emerge in print during the Renaissance? Answers, Savoia suggests, are to be found by exploring the very specific social, political, economic, medical, and cultural context of late sixteenth-century Bologna.</p> <p>The originality of Savoia's work lies in the great variety of angles, sources, questions, and fields he explores in order to cast light on this context. As he explains in the introduction, his aim is to offer a sort of <em>histoire totale</em> of Tagliacozzi's book by \"pulling together […] various threads and methodologies\" to highlight \"the many facets of a practice and a discourse\" (7). He therefore alternates micro-historical <strong>[End Page 221]</strong> inquiries about medical practitioners with wider theoretical explorations of Renaissance cultures of the face and shifting understandings of the body. The range and diversity of the primary sources is impressive, from archives documenting surgical practices and training to printed books from empirical and learned surgeons, and from books of secrets, physiognomy works, and agronomic treatises to natural philosophical and historical texts, in Latin and in the vernacular. These sources are used to provide fresh insights about the lives, training, careers, and social aspirations of barbers (who routinely performed what we would now consider minor surgical proc","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anguish in Language: Pain as a Biocultural Experience in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric","authors":"Daniel Direkoglu","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a921566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921566","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Claudia Rankine's <i>Citizen: An American Lyric</i> (2014) represents physical pain as a multidimensional experience entwined with history, language, and culture. By linking descriptions of anti-Black racist encounters with the imagery of somatic aches, Rankine blurs the boundaries between psychological suffering and physical distress to offer readers a nuanced depiction of the way racist discourse can both cause and, most crucially, shape one's private perception of corporeal agony. She zeros in on the experience of headaches to represent the interwoven relationship between the psycholinguistic contours of thought and bodily hurt, insisting that physical pain is more than a physiological alarm whose essence lies outside of language and culture.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Pain of Residential Schools in Canada: An Analysis of Silence and Narrative","authors":"Wade Paul","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a921567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921567","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>In operation for over a century, the Indian Residential School system is a painful part of Canadian history. Through the theoretical approaches to pain envisioned by Elaine Scarry, Javier Moscoso, and Ilit Ferber, this article examines how the pain of residential school experiences manifests as silence among residential school survivors. Through a close analysis of narratives that break free from that silence, it becomes apparent that narrative offers one path to national reconciliation. While arguing in favor of narrative as a path towards national reconciliation, this article cautions readers against reducing residential school narratives to a form of trauma spectatorship.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Guest Editor's Introduction: Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling","authors":"Sara Wasson","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a921562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921562","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Guest Editor's Introduction:<span>Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling</span> <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Sara Wasson (bio) </li> </ul> <blockquote> <p><span><em>How to narrate an illness</em></span><span><em>in fairer climates and</em></span><span><em>to fair-weather figures</em>.</span></p> <p><span>*</span></p> <p><span><em>How not to</em>.</span></p> —<em>Amy Allara</em>¹ </blockquote> <p>Pain may be a wind, a mist, live burial, a rubbish tip, a concrete suit, shattered glass, a knife.² Discussions of pain can readily become a list of the vivid metaphors created as people reach for language in extremity.³ Each of these metaphors—and this entire theme issue—is an example of the way pain generates words: it inspires telling. Yet despite such an abundance of language, a refrain of \"invisibility\" remains disturbingly prevalent in the lived experience of many people with pain, both mental and physical (and indeed pain problematizes that divide in multiple ways). This introduction to this issue will review and contextualize relevant recent debates in the cultural studies of pain. One of my primary aims in curating this issue is to acknowledge that insofar as pain experience poses challenges to representation, that is less a function of any intrinsic unspeakability of pain, and more of a varying cultural <em>legibility</em> of pain. Expectations of illness story—in the sense of both the events and the narrative of those events, the way they are told—has a direct impact on what kinds of pain experience <strong>[End Page 283]</strong> can most readily be heard, and who is heard. Cultural contexts and expectations of illness story influence what can be heard in pain, what can be known about it, and who is respected as knowing. These are matters of epistemic justice.⁴</p> <p>Each article in this issue examines writing which brings pain vividly to life, and shows how a particular telling of pain requires unsettling certain conventions of writing or illness expression. While narratology notes the difference between story (events, plot) and narrative (the telling of those events), the essays in this issue are less concerned with precise narratological anatomization of narrative, and more interested in the cultural work done <em>by</em> narratives, by the telling of events within specific forms.⁵ Writing pain may require disruptions, textual experimentation and the breaching of cultural expectations of what narratives should do and who should tell them.</p> <p>Pain takes many forms and has many temporalities. In the form of \"chronic\" or persistent pain, for example, it affects over 20 percent of all adults in the US, and for 12 percent of those people the pain severely impacts multiple parts of their life.⁶ Global estimat","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crime Fiction and the Knowing of Pain","authors":"Susannah B. Mintz","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a921573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921573","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Recent studies of pain have disputed the idea that pain eludes representation in language. Where these have largely focused on the <i>experience</i> of pain, my paper examines the epistemological <i>function</i> of pain in crime fiction, a genre that by definition foregrounds meaning: what and how we know. A good crime story depends structurally on resolution, but its pleasure derives more thoroughly from suspense. Pain would seem to defy those logics; surely we long for its ending, not its persistence. Yet many contemporary detectives do their work in pain, embodying an impossible contradiction between chaos and order. This suggests that pain is somehow integral to the process of knowing, inviting us to rethink pain as disrupting rather than constituting the forward motion of meaning.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strange and Tender Fracture: Flash Illness Writing, Chronic Pain, and Alternatives to \"Resilience\"","authors":"Sara Wasson","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a921571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921571","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>How might flash writing be useful in communicating chronic pain? This question drove the UKRI AHRC-funded project <i>Translating Chronic Pain</i> at Lancaster University (2017–2019), which focused on the potential of fragmentary, episode-driven forms. This article examines how the ultra-short form and navigation architectures of the <i>Translating Pain</i> online anthology facilitate a polyphony of responses to pain that neither deny the validity of distress nor make recovery a solitary, individual act. The anthology's polyphony of voices encompasses a broad register of affects and, at times, offers a commitment to the inconclusive—to ambivalent and unfinished experiences of pain, without moving too quickly to culturally sanctioned closures of optimism or individual overcoming.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}