Introduction – Body Language: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing 1. The Illness Essay 2. View from the Sickroom: Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Writing Women’s Lives of Illness 3. Mindful Skin: Disability and the Ethics of Touch in Life Writing 4. Life Writing and Graphic Narratives 5. Interactions: Disability, Trauma, and the Autobiography 6. Life Writing and Dementia Care: A Project to Assist those ‘with Dementia’ to Tell their Stories Reflections 7. ‘Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now’: Cancer and a Virtual Relationship 8. ‘But That’s Just What You Can’t Do’: Personal Reflections on the Construction and Management of Identity Following a Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome
Biography
G. Thomas Couser earned his B.A. in English at Dartmouth College, NH, USA, and his Ph.D. in American Studies at Brown University, RI, USA. He taught English and American Studies and founded and directed the Disability Studies Program at Hofstra University, NY, retiring in 2011.
