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9780823294060

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

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Foreword Book of the Year Award Independent Publishers Award (IPPY) Lambda Literary Award Finalist Publishing Triangle Award Finalist GAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest for "Getting the News," The Georgia Review, Summer 2009 Notable Essay of the Year Citation in Best American Essays 2010 for "Getting the News" Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guerilla Girls On Tour and by WILLA: Women in Literary Arts and LettersAn extended meditation on the nature of love and the nature of time inside illness, Called Back is both a narrative and non-narrative experiment in prose. The book moves through the standard breast cancer treatment trajectory (diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), with the aim of discovering unexpected vectors of observation, meaning and desire inside each phase of the typically mandated four-part ritual. A lyrical feminist critique of living with cancer at the turn of the twenty-first century in the United States, the book looks through the lens of cancer to discover new truths about intimacy and essential solitude, eroticism, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning away. Offering original exegeses of the work of Marsden Hartley, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Marcel Proust, Called Back relies on these artists' queer aesthetics to tease the author back to life. What might a person tutored as a reader of signs "see" inside breast cancer's paces, protocols, and regimes? What does the experience occlude, and what can we afford to liberate? The first chapter paves the way for the book's central emphases: a meditation on the nature of "news" and the new, on noticing, on messages-including those that the body itself relies upon in the assumption of disease-and the interpretive methods we bring to them in medical crisis. Language is paramount for how we understand and act on the disease, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we treat it, Cappello argues. Working at the borders of memoir, literary nonfiction, and cultural analysis, Called Back aims to displace tonal and affective norms- infantilizing or moralizing, redemptive, sentimental or cute-with reverie, rage, passionate intensity, intelligence, and humor.

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Publié par

Fordham University Press

Date de parution

13 juillet 2021

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780823294060

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

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∙ ∙ Praise forCalled Back

“The momentum ofCalled Back. . . derives from [Mary Cappello’s] extraordinarily capacious mind: her intelligence, wit, and emotional candor; the clarity and alertness of her train of thought; the restless ness of her style. . . . Cappello makes stunning connections between literature, art, her life, medicine, cancer. A brilliant book.” —David Shields

“I loved being offered the companionship of Cappello’sfeelingmind. I loved her insistence on taking everything in, not rushing to be ‘healed’ before experience registers. I loved the precision and passion with which this book about facing mortality attends to the particulars of being alive—both in the body and in language.” —Jan Clausen

“Mary Cappello’s spins inCalled Back are essential and compel ling, each one presenting the reader with a gallery of images, the collage of a life, a feast that stretches the entire length of a Great Hall. . . . Her wonderﬁlled riffs are wholly human: profane and alwayssacred....Called Backis a book to savor and reﬂect upon— to read again, to keep close.” —Maureen Seaton,Lambda Literary Review

“The narrative of cancer has become disconcertingly familiar to us. But Mary Cappello turns the story insideout, folds it up, and deftly reopens it into something new and rather marvelous. This is some one who reads Proust on the gurney while waiting to be wheeled into surgery. She brings us along for the ride, and it’s a dizzying, discursive delight. With a bracing combination of intellectual and emotional acuity, Cappello explores the inanities and indignities of the medical establishment, the solitude and camaraderie of illness, the politics and poetics of cancer culture. ‘Most essays are ﬁnished before they’ve begun,’ Cappello cautions her undergraduate writing students. Her book is an essay continually striking off into unex pected terrain with giddy courage and wonderment. Called back across that grim border, Cappello brings with her a luminous gift.” —Publishing Triangle Judges

“I’m not really fond of cancer memoirs, which have become so com monplace (like the diagnosis itself) that they constitute a genre of their own. But Mary Cappello’sCalled Backis in a class all by itself. Well, she’s a writer after all, and she uses her own clearsighted intel ligence and razorsharp sense of language to scrutinize the culture of breast cancer and to blaze right through it, port scar and all.” —Jean Fereca,Here on Earth, Wisconsin Public Radio

Called Back =

B Y T H E S A M E A U T H O R

Night Bloom

Awkward: A Detour

Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them

Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack

Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration(with James Morrison and Jean Walton)

Lecture

my reply to cancer • my return to life

C a l l e d B a c k =

m a r y c a p p e l l o

Fordham University Press New York 2021

This book was originally published by Alyson Books in 2009.

A version of the ﬁrst chapter appeared in the Summer 2009 issue ofThe Georgia Reviewunderthetitle“GettingtheNews:ASignerAmongSigns.”TheCodaappearedintheFall 2009 issue ofThe Seattle Review.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021907106

Printed in the United States of America

First Fordham University Press edition, 2021

For Deidre Pope, Alice Lee, Carol Sepe, Steve Jacobson, Jon Hendrickson

their expertise and

loving care,

their laying on

of hands and words

c o n t e n t s = 1Diagnosis: news 1

2Surgery:measure 35

3Chemotherapy:feelings 79

4 Radiation:story 145

coda Called Back:the voyage out 201

Afterword to the 2021 Edition 209

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