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Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Conference Schedule 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Memoir and the Body with Rosemarie Dombrowski, Stephen Kuusisto, Andrea Avery
Date(s): Friday, February 23, 2018, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Heritage, University Club (view map)
Type(s): Panel
Genre and Form(s): Creative Nonfiction, Memoir
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About the Session
How do we conceptualize the body in narrative? How does society enable or disable certain modes of being? What kinds of physical assumptions do we bring to a text? Join authors Andrea Avery, Rosemarie Dombrowski, and Stephen Kuusisto as they explore the role of ability in text: where personal narratives intersect with social constructions of health and illness, how these stories can be given power through the vehicle of memoir, and how the body can serve as a site of lyrical resistance.