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<p> 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.</p>
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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.

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

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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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...

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

Online veröffentlicht: 21. Feb. 2013

Seitenbereich: 182 - 193

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0019-6

Schlüsselwörter
diseased Other, Gordimer, healthy Self, senses

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Online veröffentlicht: 21. Feb. 2013

Seitenbereich: 182 - 193

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0019-6

Schlüsselwörterdiseased Other, Gordimer, healthy Self, senses

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
diseased Other, Gordimer, healthy Self, senses