{"product_id":"9781350572867","title":"Narrating Self-harm Cultural Representations and Lived Experience","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCritical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eNarrating Self-harm\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCultural Representations and Lived Experience\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eVeronica Heney | Stuart Murray | Corinne Saunders | Sowon Park | Angela Woods\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ 21st Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn interdisciplinary exploration of the representation of self-harm in fiction, this open access book draws on close reading of a range of contemporary films, TV shows, novels, and plays through and alongside interviews with people with experience of self-harm, offering a unique perspective on the nature and impact of representation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelf-harm is often both assumed and experienced as something that is particularly difficult to talk about, or to represent in fiction. This difficulty is partly associated with the widespread fear that depictions of self-harm lead readers or viewers to imitate the behaviour themselves. Self-harm can also simply feel difficult to talk about, due to stigma and silence, and hard to depict accurately, due to its many varied forms. This book explores that difficulty, picking apart how representations of self-harm might be limited, frustrating, or even harmful, while also investigating the significance, and even the joy, of certain representations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing data from in-depth qualitative interviews with people in the UK who self-harmed, where they reflected on fictional representations, and their impact on their lives, this book brings together analysis of this data with close readings of contemporary fictional texts, including novels, plays, films, and television, from ITV's \u003ci\u003eMy Mad Fat Diary\u003c\/i\u003e to Hanya Yanagihara's \u003ci\u003eA Little Life\u003c\/i\u003e. In doing so, it combines Literary and Film Studies and Sociological methods to explore how self-harm is represented in contemporary UK and US fictional texts, and how those representations shape people's experiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVeronica Heney\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities, UK.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 March 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350572867\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52223162974348,"sku":"9781350572867","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350572867","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}