TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Parra Fernández, Laura de la
PY  - 2021
SN  - 0144-0357
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10366/154215
AB  - [EN]This paper argues that Anne Boyer’s The Undying (2019)
reorients the writing of illness memoirs, in particular the
breast cancer memoir. Thinking of the ill body as a “queer
orientation,” following Sara Ahmed (2006), I analyze how
Boyer...
LA  - eng
KW  - Anne Boyer
KW  - breast cancer memoir
KW  - medical humanities
KW  - neoliberalism
KW  - illness narratives
TI  - The body’s unruly event of illness: (re)orienting the cancer memoir in Anne Boyer’s The Undying
DO  - 10.1080/01440357.2021.1995292
T2  - Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism
VL  - 42
M2  - 34
ER  -