A Return to Senses: The Healthy Self in Nadine Gordimer’s Writings

• Authors: Luiza Maria Caraivan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses some aspects of healthy and diseased bodies presented in Nadine Gordimer’s latest writings that mark the writer’s return to senses. Some of Susan Sontag’s considerations on‘illness and its metaphors’ are introduced in order to accentuate the significance of the healing proces in the circle of health, disease and recovery.

Keywords

EN

diseased Other; Gordimer; healthy Self; senses

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 182-193

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Luiza Maria Caraivan

• “Dimitrie Cantemir” University, Timişoara

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0019-6