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This chapter explores the inter-relationship of life writing and the narratives of illness and disability. It will trace background of the concept of life-writing and its conceptualisation into the arena of disability studies. The chapter will look at different modes in which life writing has been studied for instance the memoir, biography, testimony and letters in order to create a distinction between writing by the self for the self and writing the self of the other by the other. This concept of the self and the other will be studied from the Bakhtinian notion of the self and the other with reference to the works of Oliver W. Sacks. In connection to this idea, the chapter will navigate the terrain of life-writing and disability discourse to question the means of subjectivisation offered in the dialectics between abledbodied others and the disabled self.
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