Memory,Identity and Experience:Illness Narratives in Susan Gubar's Autobiographical Novels
The illness narratives in Susan Gubar's autobiographical novels are not only the panoramic presentation of the individual's mental and physical crisis in contemporary society but also a tool for the writer to self-adjust from the dimensions of memory,identity,and experience.Through textual analysis,this study attempts to interpret Gubar's self-therapeutic consciousness and her confrontation and reconciliation with the disease and society.The study finds that the illness narratives in autobiographical novels have the function of narrative therapy.In the illness narratives,Gubar realized the re-recognition of traumatic memory,the reconstruction of self-identity and the re-combination of life experience,expressing the due responsibility and her humanistic concern she shows for her time as a well-known scholar.
Susan Gubarillness narrativestraumatic memoryself-identitylife experience
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