03931nam 2200745Ia 450 991082550130332120240515221018.0979-88-908682-6-80-8078-5480-8(CKB)1000000000001008(OCoLC)56356684(CaPaEBR)ebrary10064777(SSID)ssj0000113490(PQKBManifestationID)11141513(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113490(PQKBWorkID)10101059(PQKB)10057032(Au-PeEL)EBL3039456(CaPaEBR)ebr10064777(MiAaPQ)EBC3039456(EXLCZ)99100000000000100820030220d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBodies in a broken world women novelists of color and the politics of medicine /Ann Folwell Stanford1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20031 online resource (282 p.) Studies in social medicineBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8078-2805-X 0-8078-6225-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1. Wasted Blood and Rage: Social Pathologies and the Limits of Medicine in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place -- Notes -- 2. All We Have to Fight Off Illness and Death: Leslie Marmon Silko's Vision of the Restor(y)ed Community in Ceremony -- Notes -- 3. Death Is a Skipped Meal Compared to This: Rememory and the Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Notes -- 4. Saving You the Doctor's Way Would Kill You: Seeing and the Racial Body in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye -- Notes -- 5. It Tried to Take My Tongue: Domestic Violence, Healing, and Voice in Sandra Cisneros's ''Woman Hollering Creek,'' Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, and Sapphire's Push -- Notes -- 6. There Was Much Left Unexplained: Narrative Complications and Technological Limitations in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Ana Castillo's So Far from God -- Notes -- 7. Human Debris: Border Politics, Body Parts, and Anatomies of Medicine in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead -- Notes -- 8. A Dream of Communitas: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents and Roads to the Possible -- Notes -- Coda: Trenchant Hope -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-C -- D-F -- G-K -- M-P -- R-S -- T-Z.Studies in social medicine.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMedicine in literatureWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismEthnic groups in literatureHuman body in literatureMinorities in literatureSick in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Medicine in literature.Women and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Ethnic groups in literature.Human body in literature.Minorities in literature.Sick in literature.813/.509356Stanford Ann Folwell1713168MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825501303321Bodies in a broken world4105922UNINA