Illness Narrative and Self-Help Culture – Self-Help Writing on Age-Related Infertility

Both self-help books and illness narratives are motivated by an impulse to overcome a crisis and, simultaneously, to help others who suffer from similar conditions. In doing so, authors of self-help and illness narratives move in between polar opposites: they have both individual and collective moti...

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Main Author: Anita Wohlmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Groningen Press 2014-11-01
Series:European Journal of Life Writing
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Online Access:https://ejlw.eu/article/view/31425