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Healing Narratives

Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-ease
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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.

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Gay Wilentz is director of ethnic studies and professor of English at East Carolina University and a visiting professor at the University of Belize. She is the author of Binding Cultures: black Women Writers in Africa  and the Diaspora. 
Release date Australia
November 1st, 2000
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
224
Dimensions
140x216x12
ISBN-13
9780813528663
Product ID
6081516

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