Marked Bodies, Marking Time: Reclaiming the Warrior in Audre Lorde's<i>The Cancer Journals</i>

Wu, Cynthia

doi:10.1080/08989575.2002.10815294

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“…These kinds of interstitial spaces have been articulated through various biological metaphors; for example, Audre Lorde engages in the 'cracking and eventual re-formation of language [that] is emblematic of Lorde's larger enterprise in bridging artificial distinctions between the journal entry as the genre of "body" and "emotion" and the essay as the genre of "mind" and "intellect"'. 38 However, the novel biological metaphor of cytoarchitecture helps to frame in new ways a very familiar question: What remains of us when we die? 39 To this old question we may add some new ones: how is remembrance and recollection effected in cyberspace?…”

Section: Bodiless Mourningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cytoarchitecture: Digital Dismembering and Remembering in Cyberspace

Newport

2020

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Between 2012 and 2017, a contributor to Mumsnet, a popular parenting forum online, began recording a third-person account under the pseudonym IamtheZombie, covering first her divorce and then her experience of cancer. In January 2017, IamtheZombie died. Preserved by MumsnetHQ, the threads form a tissue of posts: a text-culture that explores para-sociality between the living and the dead. Building on existing scholarship on digital life writing, on the afterlives of digital footprints and on recent work in the fields of memory studies, computing and neurobiology, this essay offers a new interdisciplinary framework for describing relationality in life writing on illness, dying and death: cytoarchitecture.

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Section: Bodiless Mourningmentioning

confidence: 99%