Ann Jurecic is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.
"lllness as Narrative is an innovative work that provides an
exemplary model of productive ways to read, interpret, and (by
extension) teach literature (autobiography, essays, cultural
analyses, fiction, poetry, and blogs) by and about real people with
real diseases and disabilities."
--Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut
"Ann Jurecic opens a door. The light that spills through that
newly opened door illuminates not just illness and/as narrative but
why we read, why we write, and what stories are for. Jurecic nails
what is at stake here--truth, intersubjectivity, relation,
mortality, and freedom. What a voice. What a vision. What a
challenge this book is to literary criticism, to medical practice,
to all of us who bleed and yet live."
--Rita Charon, Columbia University
"Ann Jurecic's readings of Sontag, Fadiman, Sedgwick, and Latour
carve new pathways between literary theory and illness narratives.
Illness as Narrative will refresh your vision, draw you to new
texts, and help you teach."
--Maura Spiegel, coauthor of The Grim Reader: Writings on Death,
Dying, and Living On
"Offers substantive confirmation of the continuing scholarly
trends in support of the genre of narrative medicine and for the
primary value of the patient's voice in the practice of medicine. .
. . Jurecic is a mindful reader and she successfully provides a
succinctly written arc of the emergence of illness narratives in
the twentieth century. . . . A must read for all Literature and
Medicine courses and certainly will be added to Medical Humanities
programs around the country."
--All Heart Matters
"There is no greater term of scholarly disparagement than
'therapeutic.' Jurecic's eloquent defense of therapeutic literature
is as necessary and humane as the misunderstood illness narrative
itself. Promoting mindful listening and sympathetic understanding,
this gutsy and levelheaded book performs its own reparative work,
restoring care and concern, recognition and response, attention and
acknowledgement, healing and hope to our critical lexicon."
--Diana Fuss, Princeton University
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