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Healing narratives : women writers curing cultural dis-ease / Gay Wilentz. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilentz, Gay Alden, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brodber, Erna. Jane and Louisa will soon come home.
- Brodber, Erna.
- Sinclair, Jo, 1913-1995. Wasteland.
- Sinclair, Jo.
- Silko, Leslie, 1948- Ceremony.
- Silko, Leslie.
- Bambara, Toni Cade. Salt eaters.
- Bambara, Toni Cade.
- Hulme, Keri. Bone people.
- Hulme, Keri.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Literature and mental illness--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and mental illness.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Mentally ill in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Healing in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Ceremony.
- Silko, Leslie Marmon.
- Sinclair, Jo, 1913-1995.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Mental Disorders--ethnology.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Women.
- Medical Subjects:
- Brodber, Erna. Jane and Louisa will soon come home.
- Bambara, Toni Cade. Salt eaters.
- Hulme, Keri. Bone people.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Mental Disorders--ethnology.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 205 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2000.
- Contents:
- Women Writers and Wellness Narratives
- Reclaiming Residual Culture : African Heritage as Caribbean Cures in Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home
- A Laying on of Hands : African American Healing Strategies in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters
- The Novel as Chant : Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony as Ceremonial Healing
- Becoming the Instruments of Change : Maori Healing Visions in Keri Hulme's the bone people
- When the Psychiatrist Is Part of the Cure : Healing the "Sick Jewish Soul" in Jo Sinclair/Ruth Seid's Wasteland
- Toward (W)Holistic Healing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8135-5682-1
- 0-585-37836-3
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