Re-Membering - Millett-Gallant, Ann
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Re-Membering is a memoir about being congenitally physically disabled and experiencing traumatic brain injury. Millett-Gallant recounts her accident, recovery, and consequential discoveries by engaging multiple genres of writing. Each chapter is composed of: personal narrative, research on brain injury and art therapy, disability studies and other critical theory, information from medical records, and voices from other memoirs, as well as examples of her artwork. She underscores the vital roles of her family and friends, as well as art, in her recovery and provides hope and direction for…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Re-Membering is a memoir about being congenitally physically disabled and experiencing traumatic brain injury. Millett-Gallant recounts her accident, recovery, and consequential discoveries by engaging multiple genres of writing. Each chapter is composed of: personal narrative, research on brain injury and art therapy, disability studies and other critical theory, information from medical records, and voices from other memoirs, as well as examples of her artwork. She underscores the vital roles of her family and friends, as well as art, in her recovery and provides hope and direction for others with brain injury, based upon one survivor's first-hand experiences.
Autorenporträt
Ann Millett-Gallant is an art historian, disability studies scholar, and visual artist who specializes in painting and collage. She holds a PhD in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently serves as a Senior Lecturer for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her publications include The Disabled Body in Con¬temporary Art (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010), as well as a number of journal articles in The Disability Studies Quarterly, The Review of Disability Studies, and Text and Performance Quar¬terly. She has also published a number of art and film reviews. Her co-editing experiences include a Special Issue of The Review of Disability Studies and Disability and Art History. Routledge, 2016 (both co-edited with Elizabeth Howie, PhD.). Finally, Ann is a congenital amputee and a survivor of traumatic brain injury who desires to communicate with others about disability (in its many manifestations), images of disability, and the power of art.