Fractured borders
Subtitle: reading women's cancer literature
By: Mary K. DeShazer.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780472099092; 9780472069095
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives; title: "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage; title: Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry; title: Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships; title: "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction; title: "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.