ABSTRACT
This chapter draws from embodied anomalous constructs introduced in previous chapters to illustrate writing practice. It demonstrates the performative functions of cancer journals for community building, identity construction, reflexive thinking, and affective strength. He illustrates these functions from the journals of writers like Jenny Diski and Audre Lorde, in addition to his own. He then analyzes disability journals and narratives as a genre that might represent different shades of ableist ideologies. Adopting Thomas Couser’s (2001; 2009) tropes, he illustrates how a rhetoric of emancipation might find representation in this genre.
