%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°I Had To Make A Hero Of Myself¡±: Leonard Kriegel¡¯s The Long Walk Home As Autopathographical Quest Narrative
%A Hayley Mitchell Haugen
%J The Brock Review
%D 2010
%I 
%X Leonard Kriegel¡¯s autobiographical memoir, The Long Walk Home can be read as an autopathographical quest narrative, or hero¡¯s journey. While the quest-like nature of Kriegel¡¯s memoir grounds his work in the masculine tradition of American literature, and masculine autobiography in particular, Kriegel¡¯s work also performs functions indicative of the historical emergence of the contemporary illness narrative, which Arthur Frank says in The Wounded Storyteller, ¡°reclaims the author¡¯s right to tell what is her own experience, it reclaims a voice over and against the medical voice, and it reclaims a life beyond illness, even if illness is the occasion of writing¡± (5). As a result of the tensions inherent in ¡°reclaiming¡± voice, Kriegel¡¯s work functions politically, offering a counter-voice to the dominant discourse of illness and disability in the modern era.
%K American Literature
%K memoir
%K disability studies
%K Kriegel
%U http://www.brocku.ca/brockreview/index.php/brockreview/article/view/94/266