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animal studies
anthropomorphism
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British-Jewish writing
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Doris Lessing
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forthcoming
life writing
literary self-portraiture
medical humanities
selfhood
travel writing
women's writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781526157683
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first book-length study of Jenny Diski’s work, offering a bold and original account of a writer whose fiction and non-fiction together form a sustained project. Ben Grant approaches Diski’s work thematically, examining recurring concerns in her writing on self-portraiture, sex, illness, Jewishness, travel and animals. The book demonstrates how Diski consistently reworks the genres she writes within, including the novel of ideas, memoir and travel writing, and establishes her as a major contemporary author whose thinking takes place as much in narrative form as in argument. Combining close readings with archival research, this study reveals a writer who is both singular and finely attuned to her historical moment.
Ben Grant is a Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford
