Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not. Memoir matters, and thereâ s life in letters. All life writing arises of our daily lives and has distinctive impacts on them and the culture in which we live.
Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not. Memoir matters, and thereâ s life in letters. All life writing arises of our daily lives and has distinctive impacts on them and the culture in which we live.
G. Thomas Couser received his doctorate in American Civilization at Brown University in 1977. After teaching English at Connecticut College, he moved on to Hofstra University, where he founded and directed a Disability Studies Program. From his dissertation on, his scholarship has been concerned with autobiography and memoir, especially with life writing stimulated by disability and illness and the ethics of life writing. His academic books include Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (1997), Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (2004), Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (2009), and Memoir: An Introduction (2012). He has also published dozens of articles and book chapters. In addition to scholarship, he has published personal essays in the Southwest Review, New Haven Review, and Hudson Review and Letter to My Father: A Memoir (2017).
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Chapter 1. Prologue: Death and Life Writing: Reflections on My Morbid Career Chapter 2. Introduction: The Work of Memoir Chapter 3. Quality-of-life Writing: Illness, Disability, and Contemporary American Memoir Chapter 4. Is There a Body in this Text? Embodiment in Graphic Somatography Chapter 5. Genre Matters: Form, Force, and Filiation Chapter 6. Memoir and (Lack of) Memory: Filial Narratives of Paternal Dementia Chapter 7. Paper Orphans: Writers' Children Write Their Lives Chapter 8. Filiation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." Chapter 9. Disability, Depression, Diagnosis, and Harm: Reflections on Two Personal Scenarios Chapter 10. Vulnerable Subjects: Caveat Scriptor Chapter 11. The Shape of Death in American Autobiography Chapter 12. On "Freedom Writing": Expression and Repression Chapter 13. Life in Letters: Letters as Life
Chapter 1. Prologue: Death and Life Writing: Reflections on My Morbid Career Chapter 2. Introduction: The Work of Memoir Chapter 3. Quality-of-life Writing: Illness, Disability, and Contemporary American Memoir Chapter 4. Is There a Body in this Text? Embodiment in Graphic Somatography Chapter 5. Genre Matters: Form, Force, and Filiation Chapter 6. Memoir and (Lack of) Memory: Filial Narratives of Paternal Dementia Chapter 7. Paper Orphans: Writers' Children Write Their Lives Chapter 8. Filiation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." Chapter 9. Disability, Depression, Diagnosis, and Harm: Reflections on Two Personal Scenarios Chapter 10. Vulnerable Subjects: Caveat Scriptor Chapter 11. The Shape of Death in American Autobiography Chapter 12. On "Freedom Writing": Expression and Repression Chapter 13. Life in Letters: Letters as Life
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