Beyond Words: Illness and the Limits of Expression

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Afterword © by Kathlyn Conway© 2007 by Kathlyn Conway All rights reserved. University of New Mexico Press edition published 2013 by arrangement with the author. Printed in the United States of America 18 17 16 15 14 13   1 2 3 4 5 6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Conway, Kathlyn. Beyond words : illness and the limits of expression / Kathlyn Conway. p. cm. — (Literature and medicine series) Originally published as: Illness and the limits of expression. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: “Author Kathlyn Conway, a three-time cancer survivor, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease. By wrestling with the challenge of writing about the reality of serious illness and injury, she argues, writers can offer a truer picture of the complex relationship between body and mind”—Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-8263-5324-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8263-5325-2 (electronic) I. Conway, Kathlyn. Illness and the limits of expression. II. Title. III. Series: Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.) [DNLM: 1. Chronic Disease—psychology—Personal Narratives. 2. Attitude to Health—Personal Narratives. 3. Catastrophic Illness—psychology—Personal Narratives. 4. Critical Illness—psychology—Personal Narratives. 5. Medicine in Literature—Personal Narratives. WT 500] 610—dc23   2012048009 to david, zach, and molly and in memory of my sister, chris ...