[download pdf] A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir by Emily Wells

A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir. Emily Wells

A-Matter-of-Appearance-A-Memoir.pdf
ISBN: 9781644212776 | 144 pages | 4 Mb

• A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir
• Emily Wells
• Page: 144
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9781644212776
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Download A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir

Download ebook free for kindle A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir (English Edition) 9781644212776 by Emily Wells

Overview

A dazzling memoir of chronic illness that explores the fraught intersection between pain, language, and gender, by a debut author. Emily Wells spent her childhood dancing through intense pain she assumed was normal for a ballerina pushing her body to its limits. For years, no doctor could tell Wells what was wrong with her, or they told her it was all in her head. In A Matter of Appearance, Wells traces her journey as she tries to understand and define the chronic pain she has lived with all her life. She draws on the critical works of Freud, Sontag, and others to explore the intersection between gender, pain, and language, and she traces a direct line from the “hysteria patients” at the Salpêtrière Hospital in nineteenth-century Paris to the contemporary New Age healers in Los Angeles, her stomping ground. At the crux of Wells’ literary project is the dilemma of how to diagnose an experience that is both private and public, subjective and quantifiable, and how to express all this in words. “Gorgeously written and brilliantly argued, A Matter of Appearance uses chronic illness as a lever to investigate the life of a body. It’s complex, inconclusive, and incredibly clear-eyed. Moving fluidly between histories of psychoanalysis, desire, ambition, pathology, Wells reminds us of the liminal state we all live in between sickness and health.” —Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia and Summer of Hate

Links:
[PDF EPUB] Download How to Steal a Scoundrel's Heart: A Novel by Vivienne Lorret Full Book
[PDF] HOOKED: UNA HISTORIA DE NUNCA JAMÁS. descargar gratis
{epub download} Le coeur ne cède pas
DOWNLOADS Prépabac Maths 1re générale (spécialité) - nouveau programme de Première
DOWNLOADS Hit Parade of Tears: Stories by Izumi Suzuki, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Helen O'Horan
PDF [DOWNLOAD] Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley by David G. Lewis on Iphone
[PDF EPUB] Download Being Medicine: A Shamanic Guide to Mystical Wealth + Manifestation by Juliet Trnka Full Book
[ePub] LA CONDESA (MISTER 2) descargar gratis
Download Pdf Les Emeutiers du Grand Quay
[Kindle] STRANGE TALES descargar gratis