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Dissent, 2005
Susan Sontag, who died in December at age seventy-one, was a brave intellectual; but her bravery was not just intellectual. In 1989, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie and his publishers to death, a great many people all over the world, on the left and on the right, fell over themselves trying to explain that Rushdie must have ...
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Susan Sontag, who died in December at age seventy-one, was a brave intellectual; but her bravery was not just intellectual. In 1989, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie and his publishers to death, a great many people all over the world, on the left and on the right, fell over themselves trying to explain that Rushdie must have ...
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2022
The volume offers a comprehensive presentation of Susan Sontag's writing. Her works have been situated within a range of contexts, and the theoretical underpinnings of the articles reflect major critical approaches to Sontag. Her writings remain relevant despite the passage of time and continue to provoke discussions.
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The volume offers a comprehensive presentation of Susan Sontag's writing. Her works have been situated within a range of contexts, and the theoretical underpinnings of the articles reflect major critical approaches to Sontag. Her writings remain relevant despite the passage of time and continue to provoke discussions.
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Sontag and the image machine in Iran
2022Susan Sontag, a controversial political activist and philosopher, interrogated ways of seeing photographs, taking photographs and depicting the pain of others. Her system of thoughts teaches how to ask relevant questions before and during any fieldwork where an anthropologist examines configurations of realities and meaning-making processes around ...
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October, 1989
In the promotion of AIDS and its Metaphors, Susan Sontag has expressed irritation, disappointment, and even hurt that her book has been reviewed by experts on science and AIDS rather than as "writing." This is "a literary performance," she insists in one interview, that "has more to do with Emerson than Randy Shilts."' "Imagine," she invites us in ...
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In the promotion of AIDS and its Metaphors, Susan Sontag has expressed irritation, disappointment, and even hurt that her book has been reviewed by experts on science and AIDS rather than as "writing." This is "a literary performance," she insists in one interview, that "has more to do with Emerson than Randy Shilts."' "Imagine," she invites us in ...
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Bearing Witness — Sontag and the Body
New England Journal of Medicine, 2005It is the rare book in social medicine that does not cite Susan Sontag's opening sentence in Illness as Metaphor: “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.”1 The recent death of this literary scholar, novelist, and cultural critic from myelodysplastic syndrome is a profound loss for the intellectual and clinical study of medicine.
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