Writing in Pain
Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial| By: | V. Ramazani |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230600652 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230607231 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully inflected by language and culture. Using Second Empire France after Napoleon III's seizure of power as a particularly revealing time of re-acculturation, it elaborates on the "culture of denial."