A matter of appearance : a memoir
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Published
New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2023].
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Adult Biography
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Published
New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2023].
Format
Book
Street Date
2305
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"Emily Wells, a former ballerina, spent her childhood dancing through intense, whole-body pain she assumed was normal for someone used to 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." It was only in college that she learned the name for the illness she had been suffering from all her life: Behcet's Disease, a rare congenital disorder causing blood vessel inflammation throughout the body, arthritis, and swelling of the brain. In A Matter of Appearance, Wells, who now teaches creative writing at UC Irvine, traces her journey as she tries to understand and define this specific and personal pain, internally and externally. She draws on the critical works of Freud, Sontag, and others to explore the intersection between gender, pain, and language, tracing a line from the "hysteria patients" documented at the Salpêtrière Hospital in nineteenth-century Paris through to the contemporary New Age healers of Los Angeles and beyond. At the crux of this is the dilemma of how to express in words an experience that is both private and public, subjective, and quantifiable. A work of crystalline beauty and razorlike insight, A Matter of Appearance introduces a much needed millennial voice to the literature of illness"--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wells, E. (2023). A matter of appearance: a memoir . Seven Stories Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wells, Emily. 2023. A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir. Seven Stories Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wells, Emily. A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir Seven Stories Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wells, Emily. A Matter of Appearance: A Memoir Seven Stories Press, 2023.
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