A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain
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Christina Crosby. (2016). A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press.

Christina Crosby. 2016. A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press.

Christina Crosby, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press, 2016.

Christina Crosby. A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press, 2016.

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   • bioText: The late Christina Crosby was a Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. She was the author of The Ends of History: Victorians and the 'Woman Question' and published essays and reviews in Victorian Studies, PMLA, College English, and elsewhere.
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A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accident
In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed.
In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry. Working with these resources, she recalls her 1950s tomboy ways in small-town, rural Pennsylvania, and records growing into the 1970s through radical feminism and the affirmations of gay liberation.
Deeply unsentimental, Crosby communicates in unflinching prose the experience of "diving into the wreck" of her body to acknowledge grief, and loss, but also to recognize the beauty, fragility, and dependencies of all human bodies. A memoir that is a meditation on disability, metaphor, gender, sex, and love, A Body, Undone is a compelling account of living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through writing, memory, and desire.

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   • source: Resources for Gender and Women's Studies: A Feminist Review
   • content: A Body, Undoneis a memoir about surviving in the midst of community, reflecting on loss, the interminable nature of grief, and on the meaning of living on. Christina Crosby is a writer whose intellectually expansive reflection is simply awe-inspiring. With prose that can only be described as burning with lucidity and precision, she takes us through the aftermath of the accident and the gradual understanding of its implications for her physical and psychic life. An extraordinary and luminous book.
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   • source: Vela Magazine
   • content: Christina Crosby insists on the challenge of living on after great pain and loss and shows us what it is like to begin this altered life in ones middle years. Tender, fierce, and eloquent, A Body, Undone is a necessary, even life-altering book.
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   • source: TheNewYorker.com
   • content: Christina Crosby has written a frank and lyrical memoir describing her traumatic experience of becoming quadriplegic and offering profound reflections on the role of the body in identity, on the humbling experiences of being cared for, on privilege and class in caregiving, and on loss of control. Crosbys eloquence and brutal honesty make this a stunning and harrowing account of the experience of human loss.
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   • source: The Washington Post
   • content: Crosbys powers of articulation, her ethical convictions, her deep knowledge of politics, literature, and culture, her queer commitments, and her dedication to using language to convey the farthest limits of embodied experience combine to makeA Body, Undonea transformational read, one that underscores the basic facts of our interdependence, precarity, and capacity to sustain each other.
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   • source: New Republic
   • content: [I]nher surgically incisive descriptions of how it feels to live in her ravaged body and to redefine herself within extreme new limits, Crosby resists both self-pity and the too-easy narrative of hardship overcome. Instead, she asks readers to recognize how messy, precarious, and queer, in every sense of the word, life in a body can be.
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   • content: Most memoirs about life with a disability 'almost always move toward a satisfying conclusion of lessons learned, Crosby writes. But Crosby knows that there are no satisfying conclusions when one lives 'a life beyond reason'—and that bit of wisdom alone is cause to read this elegant and harrowing book.
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   • source: Los Angeles Review of Books
   • content: Perhaps the most profound lesson of Crosby's book is how lonely pain is...[she] is not the person whose suffering can be made into a vessel for other people's metaphors. Her book's drama lies in trying to decode who she really is.
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   • source: Disability Studies Quarterly
   • content: [S]harp and transformativeA Body, Undoneis about a calamitous accident, yes, but its also about the accident of all our lives, and the inevitable mortality that informs every one of our days.
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   • source: Feministing.com
   • content: Part grueling diary of living with chronic pain and part celebration of survival, this is a complicated understanding of what it means to change your definition of living while living through it.
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    • source: Inside Higher Ed.
    • content: conversations within feminist and Disability Studies classrooms and contribute to our collective effort to theorize relationality, embodiment, and interdependence.
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    • source: Inside Higher Ed.
    • content: In its intellectual generosity, its frankness, and its dexterous deployment of the resources of scholarship toward the ends of life writing,A Body, Undonerecalls other invaluable memoirs of illness and disability by feminist academics like Susan GubarsMemoir of a Debulked Womanand Eve Kosofsky SedgwicksA Dialogue on Love, though unlike those antecedents Crosby engages explicitly with the now-robust field of disability studies.
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    • source: Journal of American Culture
    • content: Crosby discusses her reality with a candor that must be experienced to be believed. And the reader is left to face the truth that one's embodiment and the world that goes with it) can change utterly and forever, in a heartbeat.
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      December 15, 2015
      One moment, she is on her bicycle; the next, she is on the ground, her life forever transformed by an accident that leaves her a quadriplegic. Crosby, who still teaches part-time at Wesleyan University (English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and has published scholarly works (The Ends of History: Victorians and "The Woman Question," 1991), offers a painfully, even courageously candid memoir about her accident in 2003 and its aftermath. She says she has no memory of the moment when a branch caught in her front wheel and sent her hurtling to the ground, a collision that shattered her jaw and broke vertebrae, but she tells about her long period of rehab and the devotion of friends and, especially, of her lover, Janet. She occasionally returns to her pre-accident life to tell about her family--with special attention to her brother, Jeff, who suffered profoundly from multiple sclerosis and who died some years after her accident. The author notes the cruel unlikelihood that two siblings would become quadriplegic. Along the way, we hear about her growing awareness of her sexuality, of her great fondness for sex, her issues with alcohol, and of the active physical and intellectual life that she adored. She writes in wrenching detail about her constant pain, her bowels, her sex life, and her determination to craft a new way to live. She writes affectingly about the home-care professionals who have helped her, noting how much we all depend on them and how little we pay them. She uses poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and a former student to illuminate her situation; she discusses the importance to her of George Eliot. Occasionally, she slips into academic-speak (quoting from various authorities), but it's never for long and never enough to slow the emotional momentum she so carefully creates. A potent memoir that rips open a most human heart.

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In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed.
In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the...

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