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Making sense of cancer through autobiography: suffering, stigma, and regeneration in Lance Armstrong’s It’s not about the bike.
- Source :
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Journal of Poetry Therapy . Mar2017, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p33-43. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The present paper through a discussion of the therapeutic value of autobiographical narratives of disease seeks to emphasize the importance of Lance Armstrong’s autobiography, showing how someone after once having physically and emotionally devastated by a disease like cancer, and bearing the stigma of socio-cultural myths and constructions of the disease can come out triumphant and attain regeneration through an indomitable will to survive and live. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08893675
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Poetry Therapy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 120184550
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2016.1256463