%0 Journal Article
%T Listening to what cannot be said: Broken narratives and the lived body
%A Meredith Stone
%A Renata Kokanovi£¿
%J Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
%@ 1741-265X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1474022217732871
%X The core of this special issue of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education emerged from the Broken Narratives and the Lived Body conference held in 2016. The ¡®Broken Narrative¡¯ essays included in this issue open up a critical space for understanding and theorising illness narratives that defy a conventional cognitive ordering of the self as a bounded spatial and temporal entity. Here, we discuss how narratives might be ¡®broken¡¯ by discourse, trauma, ¡®ill¡¯ lived bodies and experiences that exceed linguistic representation. We trouble distinctions between coherent and incoherent narratives, attending to what gaps, silences and ¡®nonsenses¡¯ can convey about embodied illness experiences. Ultimately, we suggest that ¡®breaks¡¯ are in fact a continuation of embodied narration. This is shown in the ¡®Art and Trauma¡¯ forum of essays, which reveal how narrative silences can ¡®infect¡¯ other embodied subjects and be transformed, achieving musical or visual representation that allow us to apprehend the ¡®constitutive outside¡¯ of narratives of illness or trauma
%K Narrative
%K broken narratives
%K embodiment
%K lived body
%K illness
%K biographical disruption
%K trauma
%K mental illness
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474022217732871