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- Title
If Yuvi can, you can: Reconstruction of the Self and Body in Yuvraj Singh Singh's The Test of my Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back.
- Authors
Kasthuri, Raghavi Ravi; Venkatesan, Sathyaraj
- Abstract
Illness by destabilizing the imagined relationship between the body and the self problematizes the identity of an individual. Published in 2013 and co-authored with Sharda Ugra and Nishant Jeet Arora, the memoir The Test of my Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back (hereafter The Test of my Life) by Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is perhaps the first Indian sports illness narrative. Considering the fact that illness in India is still veiled in secrecy, the memoir The Test of my Life is i significant in that the autopathography as attested by Yuvraj Singh concerns his "life before cancer, with cancer" and "life after it" (10-11). With a rare germ cell cancer, mediastinal seminoma, rupturing his biological body and the lived experiences,Y uvraj Singh recuperates from his tumor with sheer determination and moral courage. As aptly endorsed by Sachin Tendulkar in the jacket cover, the memoir is "inspirational to its readers" for it is not just a medical record; but a success story of a human self which triumphs the adversities of the body by resilience and indomitable spirit. Using the theoretical postulates of Arthur Frank and S. K. Toombs, this paper, by close reading The Test of my Life seeks to investigate the protean identities that emerges during illness. In so doing, the essay delineates the ways in which Yuvraj Singh emerges as a cancer survivor.
- Subjects
TEST of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer &; Back, The (Book); SINGH, Yuvraj, 1981-; SELF in literature; HUMAN body in literature; CANCER in literature; FRANK, Arthur; TOOMBS, S. K.
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 4, p35
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Literary Criticism