TY - GEN T1 - Stroke book : the diary of a blindspot A1 - Alexander, Jonathan, 1967- LA - English PP - New York PB - Fordham University Press YR - 2021 ED - First edition. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1274023729 AB - "In the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an "eye stroke." A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a permanent blindspot in his right eye. In Stroke Book, Alexander recounts both the immediate aftermath of his health crisis, which marked deeper health concerns, as well as his experiences as a queer person subject to medical intervention. A pressure that the queer ill contend with is feeling at fault for their condition, of having somehow chosen illness as punishment for their queerness, however subconsciously. Queer people often experience psychic and somatic pressures that not only decrease their overall quality of life, but that can also lead to shorter lifespans. Emerging out of a medical emergency and a need to think and feel that crisis through the author's sexuality, changing sense of dis/ability, and experience of time, Stroke Book invites readers on a personal journey of facing a health crisis while trying to understand how one's sexual identity impacts and is impacted by that crisis. Piecing and stitching together his experience in a queered diary form, Alexander's lyrical prose documents his ongoing, unfolding experience in the aftermath of the stroke. Through the fracturing of his text, which almost mirrors his fractured sight post-stroke, the author grapples with his shifted experience of time, weaving in and out, while he tracks the aftermath of what he comes to call his "incident" and meditates on how a history of homophobic encounters can manifest in embodied forms. The book situates itself within a larger queer tradition of writing, first, about the body, then about the body unbecoming, and then yet further, about the body ongoing, even in the shadow of death. Stroke Book also documents the complexities of critique and imagination while holding open a space for dreaming, pleasure, intimacy, and the unexpected"-- CN - RC388.5 .A435 2021 SN - 9780823297689 SN - 0823297683 SN - 9780823297696 SN - 0823297691 SN - 9780823297665 SN - 0823297667 SN - 0823297675 SN - 9780823297672 KW - Alexander, Jonathan, : 1967- : Health. KW - Cerebrovascular disease : Patients : Biography. KW - Retina : Blood-vessels : Diseases. KW - Blindness. KW - Homosexuality : Social aspects. KW - Blindness KW - Apoplectiques : Biographies. KW - Cécité. KW - Homosexualité : Aspect social. KW - blindness. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies. KW - Cerebrovascular disease : Patients KW - Health KW - Homosexuality : Social aspects KW - Retina : Blood-vessels : Diseases KW - Biographies ER -