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Crosby, Christina, 1953-
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Quadriplegics -- United States -- Biography.
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Crosby, Christina, 1953-
Crosby, Christina, 1953-
Quadriplegics -- United States -- Biography.
Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography
Lesbians -- United States -- Biography
Feminists -- United States -- Biography
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
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A
body
,
undone
:
living
on
after
great
pain
: a
memoir
/ Christina Crosby.
by
Crosby, Christina, 1953-
New York University Press, c2016.
Call #:
362.4 C949b
Subjects
Crosby, Christina, 1953-
Quadriplegics -- United States -- Biography.
Women college teachers -- United States -- Biography
Lesbians -- United States -- Biography
Feminists -- United States -- Biography
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
Series
Sexual cultures
ISBN:
9781479833535 (hc)
Description:
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed. In A
Body
,
Undone
, Crosby puts into words a broken
body
that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. She writes about a
body
shot through with neurological
pain
, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To address this foreign
body
, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry. Working with these resources, she recalls her 1950s tomboy ways in small-town, rural Pennsylvania, and records growing into the 1970s through radical feminism and the affirmations of gay liberation. Deeply unsentimental, Crosby communicates in unflinching prose the experience of "diving into the wreck" of her
body
to acknowledge grief, and loss, but also to recognize the beauty, fragility, and dependencies of all human bodies."--Cover
Genre:
Memoirs.
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Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
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