Fractured borders [electronic resource] : reading women's cancer literature / Mary K. DeShazer.
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TextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005.Description: 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
- Autobiography
- 810.9/3561 22
- PS169.C35 D47 2005
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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