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

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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.

eISSN:
2286-0428
Lingua:
Inglese
Frequenza di pubblicazione:
Volume Open
Argomenti della rivista:
Linguistics and Semiotics, Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines, Linguistics, other, Germanic Languages, English