Blogging to Let Go: Life Writing, Maternal Cancer and Death

dc.contributor.authorJoutseno, Astrid
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-12T11:27:06Z
dc.date.available2021-07-30T07:39:43Z
dc.date.available2022-09-12T11:27:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIllness 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 living with stage IV cancer. I read two blogs, Suspicious Country by Nina Riggs and Julie Yip-Williams: My Cancer Fighting Journey by Julie Yip-Williams, and their published memoirs. I draw from life writing studies, motherhood studies, queer death studies, and narrative medicine, analyzing the overlap of mothering and illness in the contexts of life writing and med-icine. Working with Eve Sedgwick s reparative practice, I suggest that while illness, dying, and mothering appear incompatible at first, narrating from this position holds the possibility of sustenance and the potential for redefining how stories of ill and dying mothers are told. The blogs and memoirs are counter-narratives to the healing imperatives and closure demanded by the normative cancer narrative. They flesh out an approach to living with illness and dying, while writing about it. The article illus-trates how illness blogging constructs an entangled story of grief, loss, and joy which becomes an instrument in living with the acute awareness of dying.en
dc.identifier.issn2366-4142
dc.identifier.urihttp://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-161690
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/7703
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-7137
dc.language.isoende_DE
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectlife writingde_DE
dc.subjectdigital life writingde_DE
dc.subjectillness writingde_DE
dc.subjectmaternal illnessde_DE
dc.subjectcounter-narrativede_DE
dc.subject.ddcddc:300de_DE
dc.titleBlogging to Let Go: Life Writing, Maternal Cancer and Deathen
dc.typearticlede_DE
dcterms.isPartOf2856008-5de_DE
local.affiliationGCSC International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.opus.fachgebietGießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaftende_DE
local.opus.id16169
local.opus.instituteInternational Graduate Centre for the Study of Culturede_DE
local.source.journaltitleOn_culture: the open journal for the study of culture
local.source.volume11

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