Covering Pain
Pain Memoirs and Sequential Reading as an Ethical Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7669013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Gilmore (0000-0001-9688-1380, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-117 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2015.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W1738466571 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
Book design—including the elements of cover image and author photo—offer conceptual matter from which meanings of authorship and identity emerge. In the case of memoirs about chronic pain, these peritexts also employ a complicated visual iconography of disability that may rely on assumptions about agency and ability that pain memoirs themselves challenge within their covers. This essay explores how readers might bear witness to chronic pain memoirs by leveraging insights gained through the sequential reading of comics toward an ethical practice
Aesthetics · Art · Chronic pain · Comics · Iconography · Linguistics · Literature · Memoir · Physical therapy · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Witness · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Digital Storytelling and Education · Literacy, Media, and Education · Medicine · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |