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  1. The scourges of the south?
    essays on "the sickly south" in history, literature, and popular culture
    Contributor: Bjerre, Thomas Ærvold (Hrsg.); Zawadka, Beata (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

    In this book, eleven scholars ""take their stand"" on the controversial issue of disease as it occurs in the context of the American South. Playing on the popular vision of the South as an ill region on several levels, the European and American... more

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    In this book, eleven scholars ""take their stand"" on the controversial issue of disease as it occurs in the context of the American South. Playing on the popular vision of the South as an ill region on several levels, the European and American contributors interpret various aspects of the regional ""sickly"" culture as not so much southern ""problems"", but, rather, southern opportunities, or else, springboards to yet another of the South's cultural revitalizations, ""health"". As Thomas A Ervold Bjerre and Beata Zawadka note in their introduction, the so-called ""Healthy South"" has never be

     
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  2. Healing narratives
    women writers curing cultural dis-ease
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    Women Writers and Wellness Narratives -- Reclaiming Residual Culture : African Heritage as Caribbean Cures in Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home -- A Laying on of Hands : African American Healing Strategies in Toni Cade Bambara's The... more

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    Women Writers and Wellness Narratives -- Reclaiming Residual Culture : African Heritage as Caribbean Cures in Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home -- A Laying on of Hands : African American Healing Strategies in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters -- The Novel as Chant : Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony as Ceremonial Healing -- Becoming the Instruments of Change : Maori Healing Visions in Keri Hulme's the bone people -- When the Psychiatrist Is Part of the Cure : Healing the "Sick Jewish Soul" in Jo Sinclair/Ruth Seid's Wasteland -- Toward (W)Holistic Healing.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585378363; 9780585378367
    Subjects: American fiction; Literature and mental illness; Women and literature; American fiction; Mentally ill in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Healing in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Literature and mental illness; American fiction; Women and literature; American fiction; American fiction; Literature and mental illness; Women and literature; American fiction; Mentally ill in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Healing in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Medicine in Literature; Mental Disorders; Cultural Characteristics; Medicine, Traditional; Mental Disorders; Women; Mentally ill in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Women and literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; American fiction; American fiction ; Women authors; Ethnicity in literature; Healing in literature; Literature and mental illness; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Other subjects: Sinclair, Jo 1913-1995; Silko, Leslie Marmon 1948-; Brodber, Erna; Bambara, Toni Cade; Hulme, Keri; Sinclair, Jo (1913-1995): Wasteland; Silko, Leslie Marmon (1948-): Ceremony; Bambara, Toni Cade: Salt eaters; Hulme, Keri: Bone people; Silko, Leslie Marmon (1948-): Ceremony; Brodber, Erna: Jane and Louisa will soon come home; Sinclair, Jo (1913-1995): Wasteland; Brodber, Erna: Jane and Louisa will soon come home; Sinclair, Jo (1913-): Wasteland; Silko, Leslie (1948-): Ceremony; Bambara, Toni Cade: Salt eaters; Hulme, Keri: Bone people
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index. - Description based on print version record
  3. Voglio morire!
    suicide in Italian literature, culture, and society 1789-1919
    Contributor: Bernardini, Paolo (Hrsg.); Virga, Anita (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Chapter nine -- "then i shall sleep."chapter ten -- egoistic and altruistic suicide in the writings of f.t. marinetti pre- and post-futurism; chapter eleven -- michelstaedter the poet through montale; chapter twelve -- harakiri all'italiana; chapter... more

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    Chapter nine -- "then i shall sleep."chapter ten -- egoistic and altruistic suicide in the writings of f.t. marinetti pre- and post-futurism; chapter eleven -- michelstaedter the poet through montale; chapter twelve -- harakiri all'italiana; chapter thirteen -- antonia pozzi; contributors. Table of contents; preface; note on the cover image; introduction -- a culture of death; chapter one -- the "civil suicide" of francesco lomonaco; chapter two -- the life and tragic epilogue of patriot francesco benedeti; chapter three -- the ethics of suicide in giacomo leopardi; chapter four -- suicidi di primo ottocento; chapter five -- emilio praga's suicidio; chapter six -- la tematica del suicidio nella scapigliatura.; chapter seven -- representations of suicide in italian narratives from the 1860s to the early twentieth century; chapter eight -- in plain sight. The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I.A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely trea

     
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