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Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenged the victim-blaming in the language that is often used to describe diseases and the people affected by them.
illness is not a metaphor, and that the most truthful way of regarding illness—and the healthiest way of being ill —is one most purified of, most resistant to, metaphoric thinking. Yet it is hardly possible to take up one’s residence in the kingdom of the ill unprejudiced by the lurid metaphors with which it has been landscaped. It is ...
12 de dic. de 2011 · Illness as metaphor. by. Sontag, Susan, 1933-. Publication date. 1978. Topics. 22 cm, Tuberculosis in literature, Cancer in literature. Publisher. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
1 de ene. de 1978 · First published as an 87-page monograph in 1978, Illness as Metaphor critiques the dehumanizing myths and metaphors associated with the most infamous illnesses of modernity: TB in the nineteenth century, cancer in the twentieth. As always, Sontag reads as brusque and provocative.
1 de ene. de 1978 · Illness As Metaphor. Hardcover – January 1, 1978. by Susan Sontag (Author) 4.4 27 ratings. See all formats and editions. A discussion of the ways in which illness is regarded pays particular attention to fantasies that pertain to cancer. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length.
Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.
Susan Sontag argues that language has served to blame victims for diseases such as tuberculosis and cancer, expressing a psychological judgement on them. She proposes a purified language that views a disease as only a disease, rather than as evidence of a terribly flawed character.
