A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain

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In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back In that instant, she was paralyzed In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry Working with these resources, she recalls her 1950s tomboy ways in small town, rural Pennsylvania, and records growing into the 1970s through radical feminism and the affirmations of gay liberation Deeply unsentimental, Crosby communicates in unflinching prose the experience of diving into the wreck of her body to acknowledge grief, and loss, but also to recognize the beauty, fragility, and dependencies of all human bodies A memoir that is a meditation on disability, metaphor, gender, sex, and love, A Body, Undone is a compelling account of living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through writing, memory, and desire. Best Download A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain [ By ] Christina Crosby [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Crosby teaches English and gender studies at Wesleyan University Her inclusion in this Sexual Cultures series has to do with her lesbian feminist ideology but also the new understanding of her body an accident forced upon her at age 50 While she was cycling, a stick stuck in her spokes and she fell over onto concrete, slamming her chin and breaking vertebrae in her...I m not going to rate this, because it was so painfully honest that I feel weird assigning a star quality to someone s life and suffering.Lots to admire in this, including the author s refusal to offer a triumphal narrative about living with severe pain, in her case from a spinal chord injury Instead she reflects on and mourns her earlier...For anyone seeking to understand the consequences of sudden quadriplegia, this book will serve well The author, at age 50, has a bicycle accident that leaves her paralyzed As a Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, she is well equipped to tell her story, which is vivid in its description of her world before and after of her paralysis in relation to pain, grief, loss, gender, feminism, lesbianism, family relationships, sexuality, love, religion, friends, caregivers, For anyone seeking to understand the consequences of sudden quadriplegia, this book will serve well The author, at age 50, has a bicycle accident that leaves her paralyzed As a Professor of Eng...lovely chapters on shit and sex, unabashed vulnerability and sorrowI reviewed this beautiful memoir for Inside Higher EdA very powerful poignant memoir Somewhat self analytic but a vivid description of paraplegia and the power of love.An exquisite book, in every sensecerebral and intimate and funny and terribly honest and real couldn t put it down.Do not like it.

A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain
  • English
  • 15 October 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 208 pages
  • 1479833533
  • Christina Crosby
  • A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain