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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

Publicado en línea: 21 feb 2013

Páginas: 182 - 193

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

Palabras clave
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

Publicado en línea: 21 feb 2013

Páginas: 182 - 193

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

Palabras clavediseased Other, Gordimer, healthy Self, senses

© 2012 by Versita

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

Palabras clave
diseased Other, Gordimer, healthy Self, senses