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Author Wilentz, Gay Alden, 1950-

Title Healing narratives : women writers curing cultural dis-ease / Gay Wilentz.

Imprint New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2000.

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Descript 1 online resource (x, 205 pages)
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
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.
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Subject 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.
Brodber, Erna Jane and Louisa will soon come home
Sinclair, Jo, 1913- Wasteland
Silko, Leslie, 1948- Ceremony
Bambara, Toni Cade Salt eaters
Hulme, Keri Bone people
Ceremony (Silko, Leslie Marmon) (OCoLC)fst02056632
Bone people (Hulme, Keri) (OCoLC)fst01379565
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)
Medicine in literature.
Manners and customs.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Women.
Medicine in Literature
Mental Disorders -- ethnology
Cultural Characteristics
Medicine, Traditional
Mental Disorders -- therapy
Women
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Mental illness -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst01016606
Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
American fiction -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807099
Ethnicity in literature. (OCoLC)fst00916067
Healing in literature. (OCoLC)fst00952728
Literature and mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01000083
Mentally ill in literature. (OCoLC)fst01016813
Narration (Rhetoric) (OCoLC)fst01032927
Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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