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Author Stanford, Ann Folwell.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in social medicine
Studies in social medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Contents 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 -- All we have to fight off illness and death: Leslie Marmon Silko's vision of the restor(y)ed community in Ceremony -- Death is a skipped meal compared to this: rememory and the body in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 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 -- 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 -- There was much left unexplained: narrative complications and technological limitations in Gloria Naylor's Mama day and Ana Castillo's So far from God -- Human debris: border politics, body parts, and anatomies of medicine in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- A dream of Communitas: Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower and Parable of the talents and roads to the possible.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Medicine in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and medicine.
United States.
History.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature.
American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Minority authors.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Medical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Medical fiction, American.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Sick in literature.
Sick in literature.
Medicine in Literature.
Black or African American.
Women's Health.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Indexed Term Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Stanford, Ann Folwell. Bodies in a broken world. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 080782805X 0807854808 (DLC) 2003004081 (OCoLC)51855382
ISBN 0807862258 (electronic book)
9780807862254 (electronic book)
080782805X (alkaline paper)
9780807828052 (alkaline paper)
0807854808 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807854808 (paperback ; alkaline paper)