Chronic Conditions Engle Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780228016748

Chronic ConditionsAuthor(s): Karen Engle\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228016748, 978-0228016748\nSynopsis\nImagine a house whose wiring is spliced and patchy with knob and tube, coiled like a serpent ready to strike and spark at any moment. Even if you have a fire trap behind your walls, the lights will turn on. In her memoir of a life lived in physical pain, Karen Engle asks whether and how language can capture what its like to be in a body that appears to work from the outside, when its internal systems operate through an ad hoc assemblage of garbled messaging, reroutings, and shaky foundations. \n\n A series of narrative reflections capture the myriad ways in which the chronic conditions its suffering subject. Contrary to claims that pain obliterates language long a trope of writing about illness Engle contends that the person with chronic pain is not hampered by a scarcity of langu.