Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
Published In
Biography
Volume
24
Issue
1
Pages
172-184
DOI
10.1353/bio.2001.0016
Recommended Citation
Mintz, Susannah B. "Writing as Refiguration: Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face." Biography 24.1 (2001): 172-184.
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Exploring ethics