글쓰기 치료와 실천적 증언으로서의 자전적 질병서사

• 영문명: Autopathography as Scriptotherapy and a Practical Testimony: Focusing on Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 서길완(Gilwan Seoh)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제17집 3호, 153~174쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.12.31

영문 초록

This study aims to reveal the process through which one’s particular experience of illness is transformed into a traumatic experience and narrative wreckage, and then provide a creative way to cope. This work analyzes The Cancer Journals, the autopathography of Audre Lorde. This book was written six months after her modified radical mastectomy for her cancer. As such, The Cancer Journals is not a simple diary; it is a kind of post-traumatic writing. In the process of losing a breast, Lorde suffered a sense of fear, the terror of death, pain, and humiliation. However, these experiences are suppressed and silenced by a life-threatening reality and patriarchal medical discourse. A tremendous gap between her inner reality and the outside reality keep wounds fresh, crying out for healing. The Cancer Journals rereads materials on cancer written in different circumstances, on different timelines, and in different modes of address. In the book, she is both reader and writer of her text, witness to the writing as well as to the layers of lived experiences. The significant result of her writing process is to take her from “cry of raw pain” to the contextualizing retrospective provided by later commentary and elaboration, and then to activism. The act of retracing and reweaving the strands of her life becomes a practical testimony as well as therapy for herself and others. In short, The Cancer Journals as a practical testimony and scriptotherapy shows a creative the after-the-fact reaction to a particular experience of illness which entails a traumatic experience and narrative wreckage.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며

Ⅱ. 『암 일기』, 자전적 질병서사

Ⅲ. 유방암과 절개수술이 트라우마적 경험으로 구성되는 과정

Ⅳ. 치유와 실천적 증언으로서의 『암 일기』

Ⅴ. 나가며

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

자전적 질병서사 오드리 로드 암 일기 트라우마 경험 서사적 난파 실천적 증언 글쓰기치료 autopathography Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals traumatic experience narrative wreckage practical testimony scriptotherapy