Bodies in a broken world : women novelists of color and the politics of medicine / / Ann Folwell Stanford

• Autore: Stanford Ann Folwell
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.509356
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Medicine in literature; Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century; American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism; American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Ethnic groups in literature; Human body in literature; Minorities in literature; Sick in literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bodies in a broken world
• ISBN: 979-88-908682-6-8; 0-8078-5480-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825501303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in social medicine.