To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before.
In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. Shortly after her 50th birthday in 2003, Crosby was in a bicycle accident that paralyzed her, and here shares her experience of living her new life. Online resource title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed November 29, 2018). Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212). POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare. POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Security. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Social Scientists & Psychologists. Authors, American - 21st century - Biography. Women college teachers - United States - Biography. Crosby, Christina, - 1953-2021 Quadriplegics - United States - Biography. New York : New York University Press, ©2016Ĭrosby, Christina, - 1953-2021. Introduction by Ann Pellegrini (Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Performance Studies Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality).Saved in: Bibliographic Details Author / Creator: A Body, Undone is a compelling account of living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through writing, memory, and desire. In October 2003, she was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, when a branch got caught in the spokes of her bicycle, instantly pitching her to the pavement: in an instant, she was paralyzed. Part of the NYU Press Sexual Cultures series.Ĭhristina Crosby (Professor of English, Wesleyan University) will read from her just-published memoir that is a meditation on disability, metaphor, gender, sex, and love. The Department of Performance Studies welcomes you to a reading and discussion with Christina Crosby from her new memoir "A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain" (2016, NYU Press).
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