Abstract
This chapter outlines the principles of Rhetorical Narrative Medicine (RNM) and demonstrates how it works with two case studies, Joyce Carol Oates’s “Hospice/Honeymoon” and Jesmyn Ward’s “On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic.” Acknowledging my debt to the work of Rita Charon and her colleagues at Columbia University, I distinguish RNM from their more eclectic theoretical model by grounding it in the conception of narrative as rhetoric that underlies rhetorical narratology and that emphasizes the role of tellers, audiences, and purposes in narrative communication. My analysis of the case studies highlights their progressions and discusses how the resulting insights can inform caregivers’ work in the clinic.
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