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Less a Method than a Form: Repairing Shame and Illness in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Kate Zambreno.
Chloe R Green
Published: 202510.1353/lm.2025.a975549
Abstract
In this essay, I explore how Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogue on Love and Kate Zambreno's To Write as If Already Dead contest the relationship between illness and shame through their renegotiation of the confessional form. Both memoirs, in their in…
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