A Nurse in the Great War: The Exceptional Voice of Mary Borden
This essay focuses on the experience and literary testimony of Mary Borden, an outstanding figure in the landscape of World War I nursing. Beyond gender issues or questions of traumatic writing, what emerges out of Borden’s disjointed sketches is a phenomenology of the exceptional experience of war....
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oai:doaj.org-article:43ffd5572a4b47198c8495f44bb23d6d2021-12-02T10:41:57ZA Nurse in the Great War: The Exceptional Voice of Mary Borden2108-655910.4000/miranda.42228https://doaj.org/article/43ffd5572a4b47198c8495f44bb23d6d2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/miranda/42228https://doaj.org/toc/2108-6559This essay focuses on the experience and literary testimony of Mary Borden, an outstanding figure in the landscape of World War I nursing. Beyond gender issues or questions of traumatic writing, what emerges out of Borden’s disjointed sketches is a phenomenology of the exceptional experience of war. Borden’s war writing sets itself at odds with cultural and aesthetic norms, challenging not only the model of the idealised, sanctified nurse figure, but the aesthetic expectations of nurses’ accounts.Isabelle BrasmeUniversité Toulouse - Jean Jaurèsarticlenegativityphenomenologyspacewarwar nursingWorld War ISociology (General)HM401-1281ENFRMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, Vol 23 (2021) |
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This essay focuses on the experience and literary testimony of Mary Borden, an outstanding figure in the landscape of World War I nursing. Beyond gender issues or questions of traumatic writing, what emerges out of Borden’s disjointed sketches is a phenomenology of the exceptional experience of war. Borden’s war writing sets itself at odds with cultural and aesthetic norms, challenging not only the model of the idealised, sanctified nurse figure, but the aesthetic expectations of nurses’ accounts. |
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