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

Descript 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 Series Studies in social medicine Studies in social medicine. Bibliog. 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. Note English. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism. American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Medical fiction, American -- History and criticism. Ethnic groups in literature. Human body in literature. Minorities in literature. Sick in literature. African Americans. Women -- Health and hygiene. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Medicine in Literature African Americans Women's Health African American. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Women -- Health and hygiene. (OCoLC)fst01176758 American literature -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807271 African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558 American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048 American fiction -- Minority authors. (OCoLC)fst00807087 American fiction -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807099 Ethnic groups in literature. (OCoLC)fst00915988 Human body in literature. (OCoLC)fst01899762 Literature and medicine. (OCoLC)fst01000080 Medical fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst01014131 Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167 Minorities in literature. (OCoLC)fst01023274 Sick in literature. (OCoLC)fst01118080 Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093 United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155 Literatur Schwarze Frau Medizin USA 1900-1999 ISBN 0807862258 (electronic bk.) 9780807862254 (electronic bk.) 080782805X (alk. paper) 9780807828052 (alk. paper) 0807854808 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780807854808 (pbk. ; alk. paper)