ABSTRACT
This rhetorical autoethnography describes and analyzes snapshots of the author’s life and writing from moments when consumed by heightened physical—and often accompanying emotional—pain or intensity. The piece aims to let readers connect to the author as both a writer and as an embodied creature while adding to understandings of various rhetorical artifacts. Hensley Owens relies on the scholarly traditions of autoethnographic books, diary analysis, and medical and health rhetorics to make rhetorical sense of two decades of her health-related writing. She focusses on different physical issues in a series of what she calls analytical vignettes, or short, self-reflexive stories and analyses.
