Fractured borders : reading women's cancer literature / Mary K. DeShazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeShazer, Mary K.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Cancer in literature.

Cancer--Patients--United States--Biography--History and criticism.

Cancer.

Cancer patients' writings, American--History and criticism.

Cancer patients' writings, American.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Cancer in women--Historiography.

Cancer in women.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, Davis

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612591457

9781282591455

1282591452

9780472024681

047202468X

OCLC:

923501727