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Healing narratives : women writers curing cultural dis-ease
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- Creator
- Gay Wilentz
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- x, 205 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0585378363, 9780813556826, 9780585378367, 0813556821, 9780813528656, 0813528658, 9780813528663, 0813528666
- OCLC
- ocm48139598, ocm43641262
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
- Introduction: Women Writers and Wellness Narratives -- 1. Reclaiming Residual Culture: African Heritage as Caribbean Cures in Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home -- 2. A Laying on of Hands: African American Healing Strategies in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters -- 3. The Novel as Chant: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony as Ceremonial Healing -- 4. Becoming the Instruments of Change: Maori Healing Visions in Keri Hulme's the bone people -- 5. When the Psychiatrist Is Part of the Cure: Healing the "Sick Jewish Soul" in Jo Sinclair/Ruth Seid's Wasteland -- Conclusion: Toward (W)Holistic Healing
Subjects
- Brodber, Erna. Jane and Louisa will soon come home.
- Sinclair, Jo, 1913-1995. Wasteland.
- Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Ceremony.
- Bambara, Toni Cade. Salt eaters.
- Hulme, Keri. Bone people.
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Literature and mental illness -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Mentally ill in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Healing in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric)