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Bodies in a broken world : women novelists of color and the politics of medicine /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Studies in social medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.