The fragmented female body and identity the postmodern, feminist, and multiethnic writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Pérez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
c2010.
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| Series: | Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ;
v. 56. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : multiethnic fragmentation and women's community
- The fragmented body and maternal healing : the examples of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
- Reliving African matrilineage : re-membering the past in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and Gayl Jones's Corregidora
- Childhood scars and women's love in Emma Pérez's Gulf dreams and Paula Gunn Allen's The woman who owned the shadows
- The case of the missing women : chaos and the absence of women's bonds in Kathy Acker's works
- Conclusion : resistance and feminist healing.