Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease

by Gay Wilentz

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813528666
• ISBN13: 9780813528663
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"