TY - JOUR AU - Bernhardsson, Katarina PY - 2019/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The patient as reader: The uses of intertexts in two Swedish pathographies JF - Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund JA - TFSS VL - 16 IS - 31 SE - Originalartikler DO - 10.7146/tfss.v16i31.116966 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/sygdomogsamfund/article/view/116966 SP - AB - <p>Illness narratives can be said to reclaim the voice of the patient, and while they draw much of their strength from a position of experience and loss, they are also highly mediated and constructed narratives. This article studies, how these textual self-representations are formed in relation to intertexts, and how the authors explicitly use other literary texts and enter into a dialogue with them.</p><p>Two pathographies are studied, Anders Paulrud’s <em>Fjärilen i min hjärna</em> (“The Butterfly in my Brain”, 2008) and Agneta Klingspor’s <em>Stängt pga hälsosjäl</em> (“Closed due to health reasons”, 2010, and their specific strategies in incorporating other literary texts: Paulrud through assemblage and community, and Klingspor through resistance and critique, especially of narratives the author feels she is supposed to appreciate. In the end, both authors seem to share a view about literature as potentially helpful and meaningful in conveying experiences and even point to a healing potential in narratives and literature.</p> ER -