In the article "Age Troubles, Emotional Labor, and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?," Shu-li Chang examines the medium—comics—Roz Chast uses to give expressions to the emotional labor involved in caregiving. The first section reads closely the Introduction of Chast’s memoir to set the stage for a critical engagement with Chast’s innovative use of comics to critique the discourse of positive aging. The next section examines the double movement of the emotional labor of caregiving: what moves the caregiving subject and how she is moved into thought. The article concludes by proposing, in the final section, an affective mode of reading that hopefully can do justice to Chast’s use of multi-medium techniques to lay bare those moments in the caregiving experience so invested with affective forces that the caregiving subject is moved, as if by shock, to resist interpretative or affective closure of any kind. Shu-li Chang, "Age Troubles, Emotional Labor, and Roz Chast’s page 2 of 8 Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 20.5 (2018): Special Issue Voices of Life, Illness and Disabilities in Life Writing and Medical Narratives. Ed. I-Chun Wang, Jonathan Locke Hart, Cindy Chopoidalo, and David Porter

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年龄问题，情感劳动和Roz Chast的《我们不能谈论更愉快的事情吗？

在书中“年龄问题，情感劳动和Roz Chast的《我们不能谈论更愉快的事情吗？》”中，Shang-li Chang考察了Roz Chast用来表达参与护理的情感劳动的媒介-漫画。第一部分仔细阅读了《 Chast回忆录》的介绍，为与Chast创新性地使用漫画来批判积极衰老的论述打下了基础。下一部分将探讨护理工作在情感上的双重作用：护理对象如何运动以及她如何陷入思考。最后，在最后一节中，建议 一种充满情感的阅读方式，有望使查斯特运用多种媒介技术来掩盖护理经验中的那些时刻，从而使情感投入，使护理对象感动不已，仿佛被震惊而抵制解释性或情感性封闭任何形式的。Chang Shu-li Chang，“年龄问题，情感劳动和Roz Chast的第2页，共8页，我们不能谈论更愉快的事情了吗？” CLCWeb：比较文学与文化20.5（2018）：生活写作和医学叙事中关于生命，疾病和残疾的专刊。埃德 I-Chun Wang，Jonathan Locke Hart，Cindy Chopoidalo和David Porter