@ARTICLE{Boruszkowska_Iwona_Writing_2023, author={Boruszkowska, Iwona}, number={No 4 (379)}, journal={Ruch Literacki}, pages={447-462}, howpublished={online}, year={2023}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki}, abstract={This article presents a theoretical framework and a network of concepts that could be useful in analyzing illness narratives. As a relatively new field of the humanities, the cultural discourse of health and illness is still in need of an appropriate methodology and a set of handy concepts, i.e. a foundational cultural theory fit to deal with texts con-cerned with the specific experience of health and illness. Here the key concepts are fragility, reparability, vulnerability and harm. While drawing on the idea of ‘writing in a state of emergency’, based on Giorgio Agamben’s discussion in The State of Exception, the article also offers the author’s own conceptions of a ‘fragile alliance’ and of reading illness narratives as a therapeutic (restorative) activity.}, type={Artykuł}, title={Writing under the martial law regime and reparative reading: Origins and benefits of literary fragility}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/130832/2023-04-RL-01.pdf}, doi={10.24425/rl.2023.148297}, keywords={health humanities, illness narrative theory, state of emergency writing, restorative reading, fragility, reparability, Giorgio Agamben (b. 1942)}, }