Fractured borders [electronic resource] : reading women's cancer literature / Mary K. DeShazer.

By: DeShazer, Mary KContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005Description: vii, 301 pSubject(s): American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Cancer in literature | Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism | Cancer patients' writings, American -- History and criticism | Women and literature -- United States | Cancer in women -- Historiography | AutobiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/3561 LOC classification: PS169.C35 | D47 2005Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index.

"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.

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