Dirty Tale: A Narrative Journey of the IBD Body (Nicole L. Defenbaugh)
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 1-57273-994-0 Price:$42.50 Title: Dirty Tale Sub-title: A Narrative Journey of the IBD Body Author(s): Nicole L. Defenbaugh Publish Date: January 2011 Pages: 172 Format: Cloth
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The author explores the personal narratives behind the IBD identity, focusing on the ill body and its methodological journey to understand how illness is named and understood across four sites of inquiry: medical community, alternative healing, “coming out,” and performance. Narratives of others living with IBD as well as reactions from academic, ethnographic, and intimate others are braided together. The book aims to open a space for public discourse about the private moments of a hidden illness that often remain concealed. It offers multiple methodologies for understanding, examining, and connecting with the ill body and its continuous journey of identity formation, self discovery, and healing. Contents: SITUATING THE ILL BODY THROUGH NARRATIVE. Four Sites of Discovery. The Medical Community and the Grotesque Body. Personal Narratives: Understanding the Chronic Illness. Preview of Chapters. MEDICALIZING THE STERILE JOURNEY. Situating the Self Inside the Medical Paradigm. Writing the Medical Identity From Inside White Paradigmatic Walls. The Grotesque “Other”: Privately Leaking and Internalizing the Gaze. Reflexive Conclusion: An Analysis of the Messy Self. ALTERNATIVES TO CHRONIC ILLNESS. Alternative Definitions of Illness. Acupuncture and Other Alternative Medicinal Practices. Holodynamics, Quantum Physics, and Parallel Dimensions. Meditating on Alternative Forms of Healing. COMING OUT OF THE ILL CLOSET. Coming Out to Academic Others. Coming Out to Ethnographic Others. Coming Out to Intimate Others. Revisiting the Coming Out Process. AUTOPERFORMANCE AND THE STAGED BODY. Performance as Method for Understanding Illness. Coming Out on Stage. Dancing as a Performative Methodology. Performance Disparities: Challenging Dominant Systems. Reflections on Performance: Witnessing Self and Other. BORDERING ILLNESS AND THIRD SPACING AN END. Chronically Attempting to End. Third Spacing: In Search of a Homeland. Revisiting Methods of Discovery. References. Author Index. Subject Index.