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

Luiza Maria Caraivan

doi:10.2478/v10319-012-0019-6

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

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 9 (2012): Issue 1 (December 2012)

By: Luiza Maria Caraivan

Open Access

|Feb 2013

Abstract

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.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0019-6 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 (formerly 1584-3734) | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734

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Language: English

Page range: 182 - 193

Published online: Feb 21, 2013

Published in print: Dec 1, 2012

Published by: West University of Timisoara

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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© 2013 Luiza Maria Caraivan, published by West University of Timisoara
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Volume 9 (2012): Issue 1 (December 2012)