Bodies in a Broken World : Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1. Wasted Blood and Rage: Social Pathologies and the Limits of Medicine in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place -- Notes -- 2. All We Have to Fight Off Illness and Death: Leslie Marmon Silko's Vision of the Restor(y)ed Community in Ceremony -- Notes -- 3. Death Is a Skipped Meal Compared to This: Rememory and the Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Notes -- 4. Saving You the Doctor's Way Would Kill You: Seeing and the Racial Body in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye -- Notes -- 5. It Tried to Take My Tongue: Domestic Violence, Healing, and Voice in Sandra Cisneros's ''Woman Hollering Creek,'' Bebe Moore Campbell's Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, and Sapphire's Push -- Notes -- 6. There Was Much Left Unexplained: Narrative Complications and Technological Limitations in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day and Ana Castillo's So Far from God -- Notes -- 7. Human Debris: Border Politics, Body Parts, and Anatomies of Medicine in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead -- Notes -- 8. A Dream of Communitas: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents and Roads to the Possible -- Notes -- Coda: Trenchant Hope -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-C -- D-F -- G-K -- M-P -- R-S -- T-Z.

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