Mental & Spiritual Healing, Mythology - General & Miscellaneous, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Creativity, Sacred Places, Oral Tradition & Storytelling, Spirituality, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Human Ecology
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Overview
Women's paths to personal wholeness and self-healing are explored through an eco-feminist, reader-response analysis of four fictional narratives. Included in these are Mary Austin, Harriette Arnow, Ellen Galford, Ibis Gomez-Vega, and Sally Carrighar.Editorials
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Troy-Smith (English, State U. of New York-College at Oswego) employs an eco-feminist, reader-response approach to analyze four contemporary fictional narratives about women's paths to personal wholeness and self-healing. Parts I and II overview the history of storytelling and its core truths, themes, and significance for individuals and cultures. Part III looks at the work of specific authors. Of interest to students and scholars of literature and multicultural studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 1, 1996
Publisher
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1996.
Pages
205
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780791429761