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Fractured borders : reading women's cancer literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeShazer, Mary K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Autobiography.
Cancer in women > Historiography.
Women and literature > United States.
Cancer patients' writings, American > History and criticism.
Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
Cancer in literature.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives
  • "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage
  • Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry
  • Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships
  • "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction
  • "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.