04478nam 2200817 a 450 991095338080332120171026195700.09786612591457978128259145512825914529780472024681047202468X10.3998/mpub.127861(CKB)2520000000006861(EBL)3414681(OCoLC)923501727(SSID)ssj0000337861(PQKBManifestationID)11297328(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337861(PQKBWorkID)10293631(PQKB)11102934(MiAaPQ)EBC3414681(OCoLC)593240065(MdBmJHUP)muse9523(MiU)10.3998/mpub.127861(Au-PeEL)EBL3414681(CaPaEBR)ebr10371918(CaONFJC)MIL259145(BIP)11360519(EXLCZ)99252000000000686120050609d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFractured borders reading women's cancer literature /Mary K. DeShazer1st ed.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,c2005.1 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780472099092 0472099094 9780472069095 0472069098 Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index."The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.Women have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on cancer has increased exponentially as growing numbers of women face the searing realities of the disease and give testimony to its ravages and revelations. "Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature" surveys a wide range of contemporary writing about breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer, including works by Marilyn Hacker, Margaret Edson, Carole Maso, Audre Lorde, Eve Sedgwick, Mahasweta Devi, Lucille Clifton, Alicia Ostriker, Jayne Anne Phillips, Terry Tempest Williams, and Jeanette Winterson, among many others. DeShazer's readings bring insights from body theory, performance theory, feminist literary criticism, French feminisms, and disability studies to bear on these works, shining new light on a literary subject that is engaging more and more writers. "An important and useful book that will appeal to people in a variety of fields and walks of life, including scholars, teachers, and anyone interested in this subject." --Suzanne Poirier, University of Illinois at Chicago "A book on a timely and important topic, wisely written beyond scholarly boundaries and crossing many theoretical and disciplinary lines." --Patricia Moran, University of California, DavisAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismCancer in literatureCancerPatientsUnited StatesBiographyHistory and criticismCancer patients' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismWomen and literatureUnited StatesCancer in womenHistoriographyAutobiographyAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Cancer in literature.CancerPatientsHistory and criticism.Cancer patients' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Women and literatureCancer in womenHistoriography.Autobiography.810.9/3561DeShazer Mary K546368Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910953380803321Fractured borders4477275UNINA