New York Review of Books
Mourning a Breast
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9781681378220
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9781681378220
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By Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author?s experience with breast cancer?from diagnosis to treatment to recovery?and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body. In 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her semi-autobiographical novel Mourning a Breast is a disarmingly honest and inventive account of the author?s experience of a mastectomy and of her subsequent recovery. The book opens with her putting away a bathing suit. As the routine pleasure of swimming is revoked, the small loss stands in for the greater one. But Xi Xi?s mourning begins to take shape as a form of activism. Addressing her reader as frankly and unashamedly as an old friend, she describes what she is going through; finds consolation in art, literature, and cinema; and advocates for a universal literacy of the body. Mourning a Breast was heralded as one of the first Chinese-language books to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer. It is a radical novel about creating in the midst of mourning.
| Author: Xi Xi |
| Publisher: New York Review of Books |
| Publication Date: Jul 09, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 321 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1681378221 |
| ISBN-13: 9781681378220 |
Mourning a Breast
$18.95
$17.45
Sale 8%
By Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author?s experience with breast cancer?from diagnosis to treatment to recovery?and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body. In 1989, the acclaimed Hong Kong writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her semi-autobiographical novel Mourning a Breast is a disarmingly honest and inventive account of the author?s experience of a mastectomy and of her subsequent recovery. The book opens with her putting away a bathing suit. As the routine pleasure of swimming is revoked, the small loss stands in for the greater one. But Xi Xi?s mourning begins to take shape as a form of activism. Addressing her reader as frankly and unashamedly as an old friend, she describes what she is going through; finds consolation in art, literature, and cinema; and advocates for a universal literacy of the body. Mourning a Breast was heralded as one of the first Chinese-language books to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer. It is a radical novel about creating in the midst of mourning.
| Author: Xi Xi |
| Publisher: New York Review of Books |
| Publication Date: Jul 09, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 321 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1681378221 |
| ISBN-13: 9781681378220 |
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