Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer LiteratureWomen have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on cancer has increased exponentially as growing numbers of women face the searing realities of the disease and give testimony to its ravages and revelations. Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature surveys a wide range of contemporary writing about breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer, including works by Marilyn Hacker, Margaret Edson, Carole Maso, Audre Lorde, Eve Sedgwick, Mahasweta Devi, Lucille Clifton, Alicia Ostriker, Jayne Anne Phillips, Terry Tempest Williams, and Jeanette Winterson, among many others. DeShazer's readings bring insights from body theory, performance theory, feminist literary criticism, French feminisms, and disability studies to bear on these works, shining new light on a literary subject that is engaging more and more writers. "An important and useful book that will appeal to people in a variety of fields and walks of life, including scholars, teachers, and anyone interested in this subject." --Suzanne Poirier, University of Illinois at Chicago "A book on a timely and important topic, wisely written beyond scholarly boundaries and crossing many theoretical and disciplinary lines." --Patricia Moran, University of California, Davis |
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Page 90
... poet speaks subversively of the art she has created out of her engagement with cancer and of her own poetic legacy ... poet imagines herself a lost child in a fairy tale , seduced like Hansel and Gre- tel into following a bread - crumb ...
... poet speaks subversively of the art she has created out of her engagement with cancer and of her own poetic legacy ... poet imagines herself a lost child in a fairy tale , seduced like Hansel and Gre- tel into following a bread - crumb ...
Page 97
... poet acknowledges the fox not as an adversary but as a shadow self : child , I tell you now it was not the animal blood i was hiding from , it was the poet in her , the poet and the terrible stories she could tell . ( 9 ) The adjective ...
... poet acknowledges the fox not as an adversary but as a shadow self : child , I tell you now it was not the animal blood i was hiding from , it was the poet in her , the poet and the terrible stories she could tell . ( 9 ) The adjective ...
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... poet's psychological state via spatial images that contrast then and now . Before cancer , her life spread out before her , vast as earth or sea or certainly , she wittily insists , as a desert . Now the future merely trickles ; like an ...
... poet's psychological state via spatial images that contrast then and now . Before cancer , her life spread out before her , vast as earth or sea or certainly , she wittily insists , as a desert . Now the future merely trickles ; like an ...
Contents
Women Cancer Writing I | 1 |
Embodying Cancer | 52 |
Resistance | 82 |
Copyright | |
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