Artistic self-representations and cognitive complexity in Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

• Main Author: Wang, Michelle W.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Language; Art; End-of-life Care
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170545
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This essay elucidates how Rita Felski’s critical concept of recognition—and its corresponding emphases on relationality and intersubjectivity—serves as a productive mode for examining representations of illness and the challenges associated with end-of-life care in the graphic memoir form. In Roz Ch...