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Tytuł: | Cancer Narrative with a Difference: Elaine Feeney΄s ‘As You Were’ |
Autorzy: | Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ewelina |
Słowa kluczowe: | cancer narrative illness narrative Irish literature feminism trauma |
Data wydania: | 2024 |
Data dodania: | 7-cze-2024 |
Wydawca: | University of Latvia |
Źródło: | Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture Vol. 14, 2024, p. 35-50 |
Abstrakt: | Elaine Feeney ́s novel As You Were offers the story of a terminal cancer patient who forsakes any medical treatment. Narrating the final moments of her protagonist’s life, the author breaks with the traditional cancer novel formula in which a bellicose stance is prescriptive. Instead, the heroine’s stay at a hospital ward with other female patients constitutes Feeney ́s point of departure for writing a state-of-the-nation novel. The article discusses how the merging of different literary traditions, such as cancer narrative, literature of witness, or experimental fiction, allows the author to paint a poignant picture of Irish society, in which women, whose rights were historically curbed, empower each other through telling their life stories as well as reclaiming the life tales of their lost sisters. The analysis focuses on metaphors and narrative strategies that customarily underpin cancer stories and which can be identified in the novel. Secondly, the subversion of the cancer narrative is taken under scrutiny to demonstrate the experimental character of Feeney ́s novel. Subsequently, the ethical dimension of storytelling is given critical attention and the work ’s status as a state-of-the-nation novel is elaborated on. |
Afiliacja: | Uniwersytet w Białymstoku |
Nota biograficzna: | Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ph.D., is an assistant at the University of Białystok, Poland. She is a member of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. Her publications oscillate around the literary representations of motherhood and literary geography in the North American context. She is an author of several articles and book chapters. She has also co-edited three volumes of collected essays The Fantastic and Realism (2019), Jews of Eastern Poland: Between Odessa and Vilnius (2019) and Inclusion & Exclusion in/au Canada (2024). In 2015 she was awarded a scholarship from the Corbridge Trust in Cambridge, England. In April – July 2022 she was a Visiting Fellow at The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University, Toronto. Her current research project pertains to the literary representations of Newfoundland. |
E-mail: | e.feldman@uwb.edu.pl |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11320/16639 |
DOI: | 10.22364/BJELLC.14.2024.03 |
ISSN: | 1691-9971 |
e-ISSN: | 2501-0395 |
metadata.dc.identifier.orcid: | 0000-0003-1205-1510 |
Typ Dokumentu: | Article |
metadata.dc.rights.uri: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
Właściciel praw: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) |
Występuje w kolekcji(ach): | Artykuły naukowe (WFil) |
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