Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Own

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Women Writing Illness: The Processes and Products illuminates ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their ownspaces that interrogate illness, challenge restitution (re)constructions, and work within and around various limitations associated with women writing illness.
This collection streamlines writing studies with its framework and focus on writing process and products and relies heavily on trauma studies as a prominent lens. Including scholarly and hybrid pieces, this collection also blends creative writing with literary studies, often stressing how illness itself can weigh on the process of writing. Bridging trauma studies with womens studies, this collection examines narrative products through interdisciplinary and multiple lenses in order to offer a sampling of how women write illnesses in relation to identity (re)constructions, how they challenge triumphant tropes, how they work within and beyond narrative and linguistic limitations, how the very metaphors and/or genres selected work to aid in their narrating processes, and how their writing acts and products work in conjunction with their illness and (sometimes) healing journeys.

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Rachel N. Spear is associate professor of English at Francis Marion University