LEADER 04478nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910953380803321 005 20171026195700.0 010 $a9786612591457 010 $a9781282591455 010 $a1282591452 010 $a9780472024681 010 $a047202468X 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.127861 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006861 035 $a(EBL)3414681 035 $a(OCoLC)923501727 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337861 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11297328 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337861 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10293631 035 $a(PQKB)11102934 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414681 035 $a(OCoLC)593240065 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9523 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.127861 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3414681 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10371918 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL259145 035 $a(BIP)11360519 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006861 100 $a20050609d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFractured borders $ereading women's cancer literature /$fMary K. DeShazer 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAnn Arbor :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$dc2005. 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780472099092 311 08$a0472099094 311 08$a9780472069095 311 08$a0472069098 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aWomen 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, Davis 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCancer in literature 606 $aCancer$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCancer patients' writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States 606 $aCancer in women$xHistoriography 606 $aAutobiography 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCancer in literature. 615 0$aCancer$xPatients$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCancer patients' writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aCancer in women$xHistoriography. 615 0$aAutobiography. 676 $a810.9/3561 700 $aDeShazer$b Mary K$0546368 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953380803321 996 $aFractured borders$94477275 997 $aUNINA