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Critical Introduction To No Easy Way Out: A Memoir Of Interruption, Cameron S. Steele
Critical Introduction To No Easy Way Out: A Memoir Of Interruption, Cameron S. Steele
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
No Easy Way Out: A Memoir of Interruption is a collection of personal essays examining themes of race, the body, violence and desire as it seeks to examine and interrupt inherited, normative understandings of work, art, beauty, love, and belonging. An illness narrative that follows my experiences as a girl born into a family of white Southern wealth, as a young crime reporter in the Deep South, and as a mother, scholar, and writer in the Midwest, No Easy Way Out raises questions about the entanglement of privilege, illness, and access to care. The book considers the stories I covered …