... Kennedy. The chapter details the moment Kennard met his family members again after his cancer diagnosis and years of imprisonment, which only made his family more determined to work for his release. It highlights Kennard's failing health, parole and subsequent passing and funeral. Reverend Malcolm Boyd...

...This chapter focuses on violence against women’s bodies, and considers violence in various forms—cancer, kidney stones, arthritis, fibromyalgia, mental illness, etc. It presents Heather’s experiences as a breast cancer survivor, Elaine’s thoughts about her own body, and Heather’s cancer. women’s...

...This chapter explores puzzles and other ludic devices in Epileptic, Cancer Vixen, and Fun Home, asking what is produced when autobiographical graphic novels stop showing and telling and start playing. The goal is to understand the tendency in some...

...This chapter examines how bearing witness to the suffering and pain of others gives voice to bodies, and probably souls. Drawing on Brian Fies’s graphic memoir Mom’s Cancer, which conveys the experience of illness through a mother’s struggle with cancer, the chapter considers...

...Upon learning of Crockett Johnson’s lung cancer, Ruth Krauss fell into a state of collapse. At the end of the first week of February 1975, he checked in to Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut. He then underwent surgery at New York’s Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to remove part of his lungs...

...As he continued his battle with cancer, John Clellon Holmes wrote letters expressing his concern about the collected volume of Jack Kerouac’s writing that he still hoped he and Ann Danberg could edit together for the Viking Portable Library series. During this time, his wife Shirley discovered...

... Johnson returned to painting and circle squaring. In the summer of 1972, Krauss and Johnson left Rowayton behind and moved to Westport. They then embarked from New York on another cruise, this one to the western Mediterranean. In early February 1975, Johnson was diagnosed with lung cancer. Lion’s Own...

... Clellon Holmes, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Creeley, Herbert Huncke, Diane di Prima, Carl Solomon, Carolyn Cassady, William Burroughs, and Ken Kesey. Holmes, who described the conference in his essay “Envoi in Boulder,” had undergone aggressive surgery for the cancer in his mouth and jaw...

..., which forced her to return to Memphis and live with friends; her departure from Memphis for what would become a seven-year journey during which she resided in at least a dozen different locations; and her battle with lung cancer and death on July 17, 1975. Communism and anticommunism Democratic Party...

... daughter called to deliver bad news—her mother required immediate surgery for colon cancer, the dreaded disease that had claimed the lives of her grandmother and aunt. Suddenly, death was competing with life for Dance’s attention. With surgery scheduled for Monday, she also remembered how her mother always...

... of a protectionism that in fact impinges upon children's participatory rights to full knowledge and self-determination about their bodies. Ultimately "cancer books" tend to "protect" parents during their emotional struggle to support children rather than respecting young patients and readers by acknowledging...

...This chapter focuses on The Amazons Social Aid and Benevolent Society and The Black Storyville Baby Dolls. The Amazons is group of breast cancer survivors, both natives and transplants, who provide support to other survivors while celebrating life through costuming and parading. Wearing...