A memoir that is a meditation on disability, metaphor, gender, sex, and love, A Body, Undone is a compelling account of living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through writing, memory, and desire. Working with these resources, she recalls her 1950s tomboy ways in small-town, rural Pennsylvania, and records growing into the 1970s through radical feminism and the affirmations of gay liberation.ĭeeply unsentimental, Crosby communicates in unflinching prose the experience of 'diving into the wreck' of her body to acknowledge grief, and loss, but also to recognize the beauty, fragility, and dependencies of all human bodies. To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry.

She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. docx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. A Body, Undone Living on After Great Pain by Christina Crosby - Free download as Word Doc (.doc /. Crosby’s new memoir, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (NYU Press), begins at the onset of that after not simply because of the irreparable rift it opened between old life and new, but because of the trial it poses to both writer and reader: to put into words a body that seemed beyond the reach of language. In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accident

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