How to Tell When We Will Die (eBook)

On Pain, Disability, and Doom

Johanna Hedva (Autor)

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2024
341 Seiten
Zando (Verlag)
978-1-63893-117-1 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A book for the moment and for the ages. It's questing, pissed, propulsive, funny, generous, pervy, and original-full of love and pain in all their entwined glory."e; -Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsThe long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to ask: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can't get out of bed? It was not long before this essay, "e;Sick Woman Theory"e;, became a seminal work on disability, because in reframing illness as not just a biological experience but a social one, Hedva argues that under capitalism-a system that limits our worth to the productivity of our bodies-we must reach for the revolutionary act of caring for ourselves and others.How to Tell When We Will Die expands upon Hedva's paradigm-shifting perspective in a series of slyly subversive and razor-sharp essays that range from the theoretical to the personal-from Deborah Levy and Susan Sontag to wrestling, kink, mysticism, death, and the color yellow. Drawing from their experiences with America's byzantine healthcare system, and considering archetypes they call The Psychotic Woman, The Freak, and The Hag in Charge, Hedva offers a bracing indictment of the politics that exploit sickness-relying on and fueling ableism-to the detriment of us all.With the insight of Anne Boyer's The Undying and Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, and the wit of Samantha Irby, Hedva's debut collection upends our collective understanding of disability. In their radical reimagining of a world where care and pain are symbiotic, and our bodies are allowed to live free and well, Hedva implores us to remember that illness is neither an inconvenience or inevitability, but an enlivening and elemental part of being alive.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: ableism • activist texts • Biracial • books by artists • Capitalism • Care • chloe cooper jones • Covid • Disability • easy beauty • emma bolden • esme weijun wang • Eula Biss • feminist theory • Gender Studies • hillman grad • hillman grad books • ione gamble • jia tolentino • joy vergnaud • keah brown • lena waithe • Leslie Jamison • Liberal Politics • Life Sciences • Maggie Nelson • medical industrial complex • Memoir • memoir in essays • multiracial • nonfiction reads • oceans godori • On Immunity • Pain • Paul Kalanithi • Poverty • radical politics • Samantha Irby • sickness • sick woman theory • Socialism • stephanie foo • Susan Sontag • tessa miller • The Argonauts • the collected schizophrenias • the tiger and the cage • trick mirror • what my bones know • When Breath Becomes Air
• ISBN-10: 1-63893-117-8 / 1638931178
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63893-117-1 / 9781638931171