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”Den här kroppen som lämnat mig i sticket” : Bröstcancer, kropp och återhämtning i Kristina Sandbergs En ensam plats och Yvonne Hirdmans Behandlingen

Mohlin, Åsa LU and Bernhardsson, Katarina LU (2021) In Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 51(1-2). p.15-24
Abstract
This article studies autobiographical accounts of breast cancer, so called pathographies, analysing how the body and the illness are portrayed. The article has a special focus on the experiences of the lived body, relating it to the psychological concept resilience as well as to the sense of estrangement of the body in illness and the socially situated body. The focus of the study is two autobiographical Swedish accounts of breast cancer: Kristina Sandbergs’ En ensam plats (‘A lonely place’, 2021) and Yvonne Hirdman’s Behandlingen. 205 dagar i kräftrike (‘The treatment. 205 days in the kingdom of cancer’, 2019). The article is located in the field of medical humanities and the authors aim to bring out aspects relevant to both the literary... (More)
This article studies autobiographical accounts of breast cancer, so called pathographies, analysing how the body and the illness are portrayed. The article has a special focus on the experiences of the lived body, relating it to the psychological concept resilience as well as to the sense of estrangement of the body in illness and the socially situated body. The focus of the study is two autobiographical Swedish accounts of breast cancer: Kristina Sandbergs’ En ensam plats (‘A lonely place’, 2021) and Yvonne Hirdman’s Behandlingen. 205 dagar i kräftrike (‘The treatment. 205 days in the kingdom of cancer’, 2019). The article is located in the field of medical humanities and the authors aim to bring out aspects relevant to both the literary understanding of pathographies and the medical understanding of individual experiences of illness. (Less)
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”This body that has forsaken me" : Breast cancer, bodies, and recovery in Kristina Sandberg’s "En ensam plats" and Yvonne Hirdman’s "Behandlingen"
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Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap
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51
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1-2
pages
15 - 24
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Föreningen för utgivande av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap
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1104-0556
DOI
10.54797/tfl.v51i1-2.1708
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Swedish
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yes
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78405447-076f-4168-bef6-55652994bd7f
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https://publicera.kb.se/tfl/article/view/1708
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