Healing narratives : women writers curing cultural dis-ease

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Healing narratives : women writers curing cultural dis-ease

Gay Wilentz

Rutgers University Press, c2000

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p.185-196) and index

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巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780813528656

内容説明

In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz explores the relationship between culture and health. In close reading of works by five women writers - Toni Cade Bambara, Erna Broder, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Jo Sinclair-she traces the narrative and structural similarities of a main character moving form a state of mental or physical disease toward wellness through reconnection with her cultural traditions. Whether due to the history of diaspora, colonial oppression, or the subversion of traditional culture by modernity, illness can only be overcome when the cultural construction of disease is recognized and a link to the indigenous is restored. Wilentz's cross-cultural approach-African American, Jamaican, Native American, Maori, and Jewish stories-offers a rich context from which the basis of cultural illness can be examined.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813528663

内容説明

In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz explores the relationship between culture and health. In close reading of works by five women writers - Toni Cade Bambara, Erna Broder, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Jo Sinclair-she traces the narrative and structural similarities of a main character moving form a state of mental or physical disease toward wellness through reconnection with her cultural traditions. Whether due to the history of diaspora, colonial oppression, or the subversion of traditional culture by modernity, illness can only be overcome when the cultural construction of disease is recognized and a link to the indigenous is restored. Wilentz's cross-cultural approach-African American, Jamaican, Native American, Maori, and Jewish stories-offers a rich context from which the basis of cultural illness can be examined.

目次

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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