Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
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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.
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Title
Bodies in a broken world.
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0807854808
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
American fiction-- Minority authors-- History and criticism.
American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Human body in literature.
Literature and medicine-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Medical fiction, American-- History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Sick in literature.
Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
African Americans.
African Continental Ancestry Group.
Medicine in Literature.
Women's Health.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Écrits de femmes américains-- Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Groupes ethniques dans la littérature.
Littérature et médecine-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Malades dans la littérature.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Minorités dans la littérature.
Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Roman américain-- Auteurs issus des minorités-- Histoire et critique.