(P)rescription Narratives

Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship

AvStephanie Peebles Tavera

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a period of censorship in American history. In a Crip Affect reading of woman-authored medical fiction from the Comstock law era, this book astutely argues that women writers of medical fiction practice storytelling as a form of narrative medicine that prescribes various forms of healing as an antidote to the shame engineered by an American culture of censorship. Woman-authored medical fiction exposes the limitations of social construction and materiality in conversations about the female body since subject formation relies upon multiple force relations that shape and are shaped by one another in ongoing processes that do not stop despite our efforts to interpret cultural artifacts. These multiple failures to censor, to resist, to interpret open up a space for negotiating how we engage the world with greater empathy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:362 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474493208

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Stephanie Peebles Tavera is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Central Texas. She is author of the critical introduction to Helen Brent, M.D. by Annie Nathan Meyer (Hastings College Press, 2020), a medical novel that she recovered from the archives and for which she won an honorable mention Book Edition Award from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Tavera’s research focuses on American women’s literature, medical humanities, disability studies, and crip affect. She has published work in Legacy, Utopian Studies, and Science Fiction Studies academic journals.

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Tavera has conducted impressive, original archival and legal research in addition to delving into pertinent secondary historical sources. The author also deserves praise for her deft yet restrained use of personal and family history to bring her observations home. Equally praiseworthy is her sustained and simultaneous attention to ascriptive identities of gender, race, and disability as well as to their inextricable entanglement... Tavera deserves much credit for her deep dive into what has regrettably become the newly germane Comstock era and for making an ardent case throughout her thought-provoking book for a “new theoretical framework” mirroring the one she offers us, where concepts “like (p)resecription, animacy, sentimental biopower, and crip affect” help “(re)imagine and (re)theorize the oppositional power of nineteenth-century women writers of medical fiction”.

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Crip Medicine: Environmental Health and the Matter of Hysteria2. Listen for the New Man: From Narrative Prosthesis to Narrative Medicine3. Kinetic Medicine: Superposition of Black Female Subjectivity Before the Law4. Affective Fear: Vulnerability and Risk in Anti-VD Campaign CounternarrativesConclusion: Medical Theater: The Birth of Anti-Lynching Plays and Reproductive JusticeBibliographyNotesIndex