Historique
Périodique
Public and private practices: addiction autobiography and its contradictions
(Pratiques publiques et privées : les autobiographies sur l'addiction et leurs contradictions.)
Auteur(s) :
KEANE, H.
Année
2001
Page(s) :
567-595
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
32
Domaine :
Plusieurs produits / Several products
Note générale :
Contemporary Drug Problems, 2001, 28, (4), 567-595
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
This article discusses the genre of popular contemporar y addiction autobiography, drawing on two texts written by recovering drug-addicted doctors and one by a recovering alcoholic mother. While presented as straightforward "true stories, " these accounts can be read as sophisticated productions of identity, similar to the stories told in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and literature. The focus is on how these texts both reproduce and undermine notions of addiction as a disease located in the self. The common identity shared by addicts is one of the lessons the authors must learn to recover, but extended personal narratives cannot isolate the "disease" from the bodies in which it is located, nor from the specific historical, social and institutional context in which the experience of addiction is formed (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Natl Ctr. HIV Social Res., Univ. NSW, Robert Webster Bld, Sydney NSW 2052
Australie. Australia.
Australie. Australia.