Called Back : My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life / Mary Cappello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cappello, Mary, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cappello, Mary--Health.

Cappello, Mary.

Breast--Cancer--Patients--United States--Biography.

Breast.

Breast--Cancer--Patients--Psychology.

Breast--Cancer--Patients--Rehabilitation--Psychological aspects.

Breast Neoplasms.

Breast Neoplasms--psychology.

Breast Neoplasms--rehabilitation.

Autobiography.

Health.

Medical Subjects:

Cappello, Mary.

Breast Neoplasms.

Breast Neoplasms--psychology.

Breast Neoplasms--rehabilitation.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Foreword Book of the Year Award Independent Publishers Award (IPPY) Lambda Literary Award Finalist Publishing Triangle Award Finalist GAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest for “Getting the News,” The Georgia Review, Summer 2009 Notable Essay of the Year Citation in Best American Essays 2010 for “Getting the News” Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guerilla Girls On Tour and by WILLA: Women in Literary Arts and LettersAn extended meditation on the nature of love and the nature of time inside illness, Called Back is both a narrative and non-narrative experiment in prose. The book moves through the standard breast cancer treatment trajectory (diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), with the aim of discovering unexpected vectors of observation, meaning and desire inside each phase of the typically mandated four-part ritual. A lyrical feminist critique of living with cancer at the turn of the twenty-first century in the United States, the book looks through the lens of cancer to discover new truths about intimacy and essential solitude, eroticism, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning away. Offering original exegeses of the work of Marsden Hartley, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Marcel Proust, Called Back relies on these artists’ queer aesthetics to tease the author back to life. What might a person tutored as a reader of signs “see” inside breast cancer’s paces, protocols, and regimes? What does the experience occlude, and what can we afford to liberate? The first chapter paves the way for the book’s central emphases: a meditation on the nature of “news” and the new, on noticing, on messages—including those that the body itself relies upon in the assumption of disease—and the interpretive methods we bring to them in medical crisis. Language is paramount for how we understand and act on the disease, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we treat it, Cappello argues. Working at the borders of memoir, literary nonfiction, and cultural analysis, Called Back aims to displace tonal and affective norms— infantilizing or moralizing, redemptive, sentimental or cute—with reverie, rage, passionate intensity, intelligence, and humor.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1 Diagnosis: news

2 Surgery: measure

3 Chemotherapy: feelings

4 Radiation: story

Coda Called Back: the voyage out

Afterword to the 2021 Edition

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780823294060

0823294064

9780823294053

0823294056

OCLC:

1259323138