Description |
vii, 301 p. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index. |
Contents |
"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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Cancer in literature.
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Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Cancer patients' writings, American -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Cancer in women -- Historiography.
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Autobiography.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
0472099094 (acid-free paper) |
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0472069098 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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