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This book explores the rhetorical and ethical dynamics of didactic illness narratives, including works by Audre Lorde, Philip Roth, and Sara Maguso, focusing in particular on how these narratives defy prevailing critical notions about the formal and cultural value of moral storytelling. Didactic illness narratives have long been viewed with suspicion or outright ignored by critics. Moral Storytelling in Illness Narratives: Dialogue, Subjectivity, Justice seeks to disrupt this consensus by demonstrating that many formally and politically sophisticated narratives have clear didactic purposes and that, when they achieve these purposes, they do important cultural work.
Antonio J. Ferraro holds a PhD in English from the Ohio State University and has taught at Ohio State, Ohio Northern University, and the University of Cincinnati. His research on illness narratives, strong authorial presence, and rhetorical narrative theory has been published in Style, Literature and Medicine, DIEGESIS, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, and elsewhere.