ABSTRACT

This essay elucidates how Rita Felski’s critical concept of recognition—and its corresponding emphases on relationality and intersubjectivity—serves as a productive mode for examining representations of illness and the challenges associated with end-of-life care in the graphic memoir form. In Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (2014), not only does the cartoonist chronicle her elderly parents’ struggles with escalating physical and cognitive debilitation, the graphic memoir is also an intimate record of Chast’s own difficult emotional journey of re-orientating from her role as their child to their caregiver. By attending to artistic self-representations in Chast’s graphic memoir, I explain how its embedding of layered subjectivities is built on a relational model of care ethics that illuminates the emotional complexities of caring for one’s loved ones.

摘要

本文阐明了丽塔·费尔斯基的批判性认知概念——以及它对关系性和主体间性的相应强调——如何作为一种富有成效的模式，以图形回忆录形式检查疾病的表现以及与临终关怀相关的挑战。在 Roz Chast 中，我们不能谈论一些更愉快的事情吗？（2014 年），这位漫画家不仅记录了她年迈的父母与不断升级的身体和认知衰弱的斗争，这本生动的回忆录也是查斯特自己艰难的情感旅程的亲密记录，她将自己从孩子的角色重新定位为照顾者的角色。通过关注查斯特的图形回忆录中的艺术自我表现，我解释了它如何嵌入分层的主体性是建立在护理伦理的关系模型之上的，该模型阐明了照顾亲人的情感复杂性。