Literature and medicineShameHumansMedicine in LiteratureFemaleNeoplasms
"A World of Unknowing": Facing Shame in Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face.
Harriet Hustis
Published: 202510.1353/lm.2025.a975546
Abstract
Situated at the intersection of literature and medicine, Autobiography of a Face offers a unique opportunity to explore the interrelationship of shame and illness. By interleaving what Grealy thought she knew with what she later learned (but still st…
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