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Addiction as Disability in American Life Writing.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Addiction as Disability in American Life Writing./
作者:	Young, Alexis Marie.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (82 pages)
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International84-11.
標題:	Disability studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30418538click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379448431

Addiction as Disability in American Life Writing.
Young, Alexis Marie.

Addiction as Disability in American Life Writing. - 1 online resource (82 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgetown University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This thesis uses disability theory frameworks to analyze two popular trends in addiction life writing: Beat generation semi-autobiographical novels and contemporary recovery memoirs. I begin with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, connecting their Romantic "mad genius," sensationalist, and modernist aesthetics to their intentional substance abuse and understanding of their addiction and status as drug users as a site of identity formation, marginalization, and sociopolitical organization. Through forms like spontaneous prose, and through content involving bodily and mental distortion and fragmentation, these writers use drugs to invoke a modern, disabled aesthetic. I then explore the limits of the contemporary recovery memoir as a type of illness narrative that complicates a hero's quest for wisdom through drug use that the Beats glamorize. I examine four memoirs, each centering a different method of recovery: a private rehabilitation facility, incarceration, Alcoholics Anonymous, and a non-12 step approach. I argue that these texts, due to the narrative, social, and positional constraints of publishing a recovery memoir, fail to represent the full range of varied, lived experiences of addiction and addict identities. While both genres have a very different relationship to cure, these modes of addiction life writing both rely heavily on the freak show tradition of "regulatory exhibitionism," whereby the cultural norm of what counts as a healthy and able body is affirmed through displays of non-normal bodies. In both cases, these writers display the worst experiences with addiction to mark themselves as distinct "others" situated outside of the cultural norm. The Beats use their own stories to resist state systems of oppression. The memoirists similarly use their stories of addiction-related trouble to separate the past/othered self from the new, cured, normative self. I argue that the formal elements of genre constrain the ability to represent the incurable and multifaceted realities of addiction, but these genres both have generative elements that can help us conceptualize a more inclusive future of drug and addiction storytelling.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379448431Subjects--Topical Terms:

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