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{"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":"76 1","pages":""},"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":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain&lt;/em&gt; by Paolo Savoia &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Viktoria von Hoffmann (bio) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Paolo Savoia. &lt;em&gt;Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain&lt;/em&gt;. London: Routledge, 2019. 284 pp. Paperback, $51.99. &lt;p&gt;A translated and slightly revised edition of Paolo Savoia's &lt;em&gt;Cosmesi e Chirurgia. Bellezza, dolore e medicina nell'Italia moderna&lt;/em&gt; (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 &lt;em&gt;De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem&lt;/em&gt; (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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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 &lt;em&gt;histoire totale&lt;/em&gt; 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 &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 221]&lt;/strong&gt; 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":"45 1","pages":""},"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":"38 1","pages":""},"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":"14 1","pages":""},"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":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; Guest Editor's Introduction:&lt;span&gt;Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling&lt;/span&gt; &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Sara Wasson (bio) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to narrate an illness&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;in fairer climates and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;to fair-weather figures&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;How not to&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; —&lt;em&gt;Amy Allara&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Pain may be a wind, a mist, live burial, a rubbish tip, a concrete suit, shattered glass, a knife.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; Discussions of pain can readily become a list of the vivid metaphors created as people reach for language in extremity.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; 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 &lt;em&gt;legibility&lt;/em&gt; 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 &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 283]&lt;/strong&gt; 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.&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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 &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; narratives, by the telling of events within specific forms.&lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt; Writing pain may require disruptions, textual experimentation and the breaching of cultural expectations of what narratives should do and who should tell them.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;sup&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt; Global estimat","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"508 1","pages":""},"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":"26 1","pages":""},"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":"87 4 1","pages":""},"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}

{"title":"\"Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn\": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss","authors":"Anne Whitehead","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a921568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921568","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay asks whether poetry can articulate the experience of maternal loss, paying particular attention to questions of form. Focusing on two British poetry collections, Rebecca Goss's <i>Her Birth</i> (2013) and Karen McCarthy Woolf's <i>An Aviary of Small Birds</i> (2014), I argue that the contemporary elegy is currently being reshaped to explore the grief of losing a baby, and to bear witness to a life briefly lived. Drawing on Caroline Levine's emphasis on the affordances of form, the essay first examines these elegies' aural qualities thorugh the motif of the echo. Next I attend to the shaping of the poems, and how their word placement gives weight to the experience of baby loss. Finally, I consider how the modes of address at the end of the two collections negotiate the possibility of moving forward.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129430","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":"Essaying Pain","authors":"Ann Jurecic","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a921565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Narrative has long been central to the study of literature about illness, but we err if we assume that memoir and fiction alone depict the embodied experience of physical suffering. Contemporary writers also turn to the essay. In French, <i>essayer</i> means to attempt, and writing essays requires facing difficult questions and predicaments, confronting uncertainty and the unknown. Among recent literary essays, many are about women in pain. These include Eula Biss's \"The Pain Scale\" (2005) and Leslie Jamison's \"Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain\" (2014). Each of these writers asks: How, when, and why do we suffer? Why is women's pain so often diminished, dismissed, and misunderstood? And why, in response to the suffering of others, do we regularly fail to provide what is needed?</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129397","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":"Vehement Experiences: The Inscription and Description of Delusion in Nineteenth-century French Asylums","authors":"Javier Moscoso","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a921572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921572","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay explores the differences in the narrative forms of mental illness, depending on whether the sources consulted come from published medical histories or archival material. Based on the study of dozens of clinical cases contained in, above all, the institutions of Charenton and Bicêtre, from the late eighteenth century to the 1850s, I argue that the distinctive feature of the clinical case was vehemence rather than delirium. My methodological approach is based on the conceptualization of the forms of experience proposed by the philosopher of history Reinhart Koselleck.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129474","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}