Susannah B Mintz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1138439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susannah B Mintz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susannah B |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintz |
| SIGNATURE | MINTZ S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Skidmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Crime Fiction and the Knowing of Pain
Recent studies of pain have disputed the idea that pain eludes representation in language. Where these have largely focused on the experience of pain, my paper examines the epistemological function of pain in crime fiction, a genre that by definition foregrounds meaning: what and how we know. A good crime story depends structurally on resolution, but its pleasure derives more thoroughly from suspense. Pain would seem to defy those logics; surely …
Mindful Skin
This essay theorises skin as a potential meeting point of Buddhist mindfulness, disability activism, and an ethics of care. The phenomenological turn in disability studies has redirected attention from social conditions to the materiality of the body, restoring discussions of pain, sexuality, and caregiving to disability praxis. Yet metaphors of health continue to suffuse philosophical work on moral agency and touch, and explanations of mindfulne…
The Fiction of Autobiography
Reviewed by: The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity by Micaela Maftei Susannah B. Mintz (bio) Micaela Maftei. The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 154pp. + appendix, references, and index. ISBN 978-1623568016, $29.95. Micaela Maftei’s introduction explains that The Fiction of Autobiography began as a search for an interpretive framework within which to understand the interplay o…
Memoir
G. Thomas Couser. Memoir: An Introduction . New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 183 pp.+Works Cited and Notes Reviewed by: Susannah B. Mintz It was the best of times for memoir; it was the wor
Strangers Within
Keywords: disability memoirautismautobiographyreading autism
On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs
Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and
On a Scale from 1 to 10
Given the notorious resistance of physical pain to textual representation, how does an author write the story of pain? Using Eula Biss’s 2005 essay “The Pain Scale” as its touchstone, the article considers lyric essay as pain’s most suitable autobiographical genre. A lyric essay, it is argued, can perform the kind of conceptual shift that many theorists of pain have called for, situating pain along the pathways not just of nerves but of subjectiv…
Forms of Self-Disclosure in the Lyrical Essay
(2010). Forms of Self-Disclosure in the Lyrical Essay. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-17
Unfitting Stories
Reviewed by: Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma Susannah B. Mintz (bio) Valerie RaoulConnie CanamAngela D. HendersonCarla Paterson, eds. Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2007. 305 pp. + notes. ISBN 978-0-88920-509-3, $85.00. The essays contained in Unfitting Stories emerge from a five-year research project conducted at the Uni…
To Boredom and Back
Keywords: travel writingcreative nonfictionnarratorspersonal narrative
Invisible Disability
explores the challenge Kleege poses to the presumably universal relation between vision, knowledge, and stable subjectivity. I argue that the semiotic and personal analysis Kleege performs in her essays disrupts the entrenched connection between seeing and selfhood whereby the blind are construed as diminished or helpless figures. Sight Unseen maximizes the specular effects of the autobiographical situation, making transgressively visible the ano…
The Limits of Autobiography
Leigh Gilmore. The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony.Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001. 148 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3799-7, $39.95 cloth; ISBN 0-8014-8674-2, $16.95
Writing as Refiguration
This essay focuses on the relationship between life-writing, disability, and subjectivity. In her account of facial disfigurement resulting from jaw cancer, Lucy Grealy confronts cultural mythologies that signify corporeal difference as monstrous deviations, mapping new possibilities for female, embodied identity as well as for memoirs of illness and physical impairment
Transforming the Tale
In the first essay of her most recent collection, Waist-High in the World (1997), Nancy Mairs poses again the question that has informed her writing for more than a decade:" Who would I be ifl didn't have MS?"(8). Not at all glibly rhetorical, the question lies at the center of Mairs's autobiographical project, which attempts both to articulate the significance of a disabled female body in the construction of her identity and to invent an aesthet…
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Transforming the Tale
In the first essay of her most recent collection, Waist-High in the World (1997), Nancy Mairs poses again the question that has informed her writing for more than a decade:" Who would I be ifl didn't have MS?"(8). Not at all glibly rhetorical, the question lies at the center of Mairs's autobiographical project, which attempts both to articulate the significance of a disabled female body in the construction of her identity and to invent an aesthet…
The Limits of Autobiography
Leigh Gilmore. The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony.Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001. 148 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3799-7, $39.95 cloth; ISBN 0-8014-8674-2, $16.95
Writing as Refiguration
This essay focuses on the relationship between life-writing, disability, and subjectivity. In her account of facial disfigurement resulting from jaw cancer, Lucy Grealy confronts cultural mythologies that signify corporeal difference as monstrous deviations, mapping new possibilities for female, embodied identity as well as for memoirs of illness and physical impairment
Invisible Disability
explores the challenge Kleege poses to the presumably universal relation between vision, knowledge, and stable subjectivity. I argue that the semiotic and personal analysis Kleege performs in her essays disrupts the entrenched connection between seeing and selfhood whereby the blind are construed as diminished or helpless figures. Sight Unseen maximizes the specular effects of the autobiographical situation, making transgressively visible the ano…
To Boredom and Back
Keywords: travel writingcreative nonfictionnarratorspersonal narrative
Unfitting Stories
Reviewed by: Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma Susannah B. Mintz (bio) Valerie RaoulConnie CanamAngela D. HendersonCarla Paterson, eds. Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2007. 305 pp. + notes. ISBN 978-0-88920-509-3, $85.00. The essays contained in Unfitting Stories emerge from a five-year research project conducted at the Uni…
Forms of Self-Disclosure in the Lyrical Essay
(2010). Forms of Self-Disclosure in the Lyrical Essay. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-17
On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs
Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and
On a Scale from 1 to 10
Given the notorious resistance of physical pain to textual representation, how does an author write the story of pain? Using Eula Biss’s 2005 essay “The Pain Scale” as its touchstone, the article considers lyric essay as pain’s most suitable autobiographical genre. A lyric essay, it is argued, can perform the kind of conceptual shift that many theorists of pain have called for, situating pain along the pathways not just of nerves but of subjectiv…
Strangers Within
Keywords: disability memoirautismautobiographyreading autism
Memoir
G. Thomas Couser. Memoir: An Introduction . New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 183 pp.+Works Cited and Notes Reviewed by: Susannah B. Mintz It was the best of times for memoir; it was the wor
The Fiction of Autobiography
Reviewed by: The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity by Micaela Maftei Susannah B. Mintz (bio) Micaela Maftei. The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 154pp. + appendix, references, and index. ISBN 978-1623568016, $29.95. Micaela Maftei’s introduction explains that The Fiction of Autobiography began as a search for an interpretive framework within which to understand the interplay o…
Mindful Skin
This essay theorises skin as a potential meeting point of Buddhist mindfulness, disability activism, and an ethics of care. The phenomenological turn in disability studies has redirected attention from social conditions to the materiality of the body, restoring discussions of pain, sexuality, and caregiving to disability praxis. Yet metaphors of health continue to suffuse philosophical work on moral agency and touch, and explanations of mindfulne…
Crime Fiction and the Knowing of Pain
Recent studies of pain have disputed the idea that pain eludes representation in language. Where these have largely focused on the experience of pain, my paper examines the epistemological function of pain in crime fiction, a genre that by definition foregrounds meaning: what and how we know. A good crime story depends structurally on resolution, but its pleasure derives more thoroughly from suspense. Pain would seem to defy those logics; surely …
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