On_Culture Vol. 11 (2021)
Recent Submissions
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Quarantined voices: on the transformative impact of COVID narratives at a time of crisis
(2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked new ways of not only gathering epidemiological information but also of telling the story of illness. In the early months of the pandemic, a collaborative relationship quickly developed out ... -
Illness, narrated : editorial
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The illness of narrative: reframing the question of limits
(2021)This paper uses Dostoevsky s Notes from the Underground as the starting point for a critique of the assumption that engaging with narratives enhances well-being. While the limits of narrative have long been an object of ... -
Infectious diseases in historical perspective: French pox versus venereal syphilis
(2021)Medical historiography has tended to almost automatically identify the disease that entered European medical and lay writings at the end of the 15th century as morbus gallicus with the present-day condition known as ... -
Through the eyes of Peter Pan: internalizing mental illness via animation in the documentary "Life, Animated"
(2021)This article discusses to what extent the documentary film, through its aesthetic strat-egies and narrative style, spotlights the topic of mental illness, contributing to soci-ety s acceptance of this taboo topic. The 2016 ... -
The madwoman in the cellar: trauma and gender after both World Wars : a field study of psychiatric files
(2021)By utilizing practical examples from the Abteilung für Psychatrie [psychiatric ward] at the Landeskrankenanstalt [province hospital] in Carinthia, Austria, in the wake of the two World Wars, this article seeks to explore ... -
Blogging to Let Go: Life Writing, Maternal Cancer and Death
(2021)Illness memoirs gained popularity in the last decades of the 20th century. From the early 21st century, illness narratives proliferate online. This article examines illness life writing and near-death narratives by mothers ... -
Material shifts: theorizing endometriosis, embodiment, and experimental art
(2021)A body changed by illness demands new narrative modes. In this article, I use autothe-ory to foreground my experience of struggling with symptoms of endometriosis. I enter into conversation with feminist disability scholars ... -
"You can't combat nothing": Allie Brosh's "Hyperbole and a Half" and reframing mental illness through webcomics
(2021)Amidst the powerfully democratizing, public spheres of Web 2.0, life writing has taken on new geographies and forms of mobility through webcomics. As an experi-mental mode of self-representation, webcomics are part of an ... -
Preface: illness, narrated
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Untenanted by any tangible form': illness, minorities, and narrative masquerades in contemporary pandemic fiction
(2021)In the current Covid-19 crisis, masks have become a ubiquitous sight in social situa-tions. As visual signifiers of both protection and containment, they emblematize the very risk which they serve to prevent. Departing ...