Gay Wilentz

Healing Narratives

Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the relationship between culture and health, this text provides readings of the works of five women writers, tracing their common structure of a main character moving from a state of mental or physical disease toward wellness through reconnection with her cultural traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780813528663
• ISBN-10: 0813528666
• Artikelnr.: 21777446

Autorenporträt

Gay Wilentz is director of ethnic studies and professor of English at East Carolina University and a visiting professor at the University of Belize. She is the author of Binding Cultures: black Women Writers in Africa  and the Diaspora. 

Inhaltsangabe

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