Julia Darling's New Vocabularies of Pain: Mapping Body, Gender and Place

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Julia Darling noted privately that her objective as a writer was to "find a new language, betweenart and politics, to describe the changes that happen around us" (2004). My thesis will excavateDarling's forging of an innovative literary vocabulary of health and sickness, addressing the bodypolitics of her own breast cancer and the traumatized civic body of post-industrial Tyneside. I willdemonstrate how Darling confronted the inadequacy of conventional medical discourse in radicalwritten work and during pioneering collaborations with clinicians - for example, in the creation ofthe transformative Operating Theatre at Newcastle University.