Madonna Swan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madonna Swan write by Mark St. Pierre. This book was released on 1994-06-30. Madonna Swan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biography of Lakota woman, Madonna Swan. Her life on an Indian reservation and her struggle with tuberculosis.
Walking in the Sacred Manner
Walking in the Sacred Manner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walking in the Sacred Manner write by Mark St. Pierre. This book was released on 2012-03-13. Walking in the Sacred Manner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Walking in the Sacred Manner is an exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined, and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community. Based on extensive first-person interviews by an established expert on Plains Indian women, Walking in the Sacred Manner is a singular and authentic record of the participation of women in the sacred traditions of Northern Plains tribes, including Lakota, Cheyenne, Crow, and Assiniboine. Through interviews with holy women and the families of women healers, Mark St. Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier paint a rich and varied portrait of a society and its traditions. Stereotypical images of the Native American drop away as the voices, dreams, and experiences of these women (both healers and healed) present insight into a culture about which little is known. It is a journey into the past, an exploration of the present, and a view full of hope for the future.
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two write by Philip A. Greasley. This book was released on 2016-08-08. Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.
Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes
Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes write by Joanna Ziarkowska. This book was released on 2020-10-08. Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes Indigenous (and non-Western) epistemologies and instead draw attention to how illness, healing, treatment, and genetic research are socially constructed and dependent on inherently racialist thinking. This volume highlights how interventions into the hegemony of biomedicine are vigorously addressed in Native American literature. The book covers tuberculosis and diabetes epidemics, the emergence of Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnology, and the problematics of a biomedical model of psychiatry. The book analyzes work by Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan, Heid E. Erdrich, Elissa Washuta and Frances Washburn. The book will appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.
Treatments
Treatments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Treatments write by Lisa Diedrich. This book was released on . Treatments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Creative expression inspired by disease has been criticized as a celebration of victimhood, unmediated personal experience, or just simply bad art. Despite debate, however, memoirs written about illness—particularly AIDS or cancer—have proliferated since the late twentieth century and occupy a highly influential place on the cultural landscape today. In Treatments, Lisa Diedrich considers illness narratives, demonstrating that these texts not only recount and interpret symptoms but also describe illness as an event that reflects wider cultural contexts, including race, gender, class, and sexuality. Diedrich begins this theoretically rigorous analysis by offering examples of midcentury memoirs of tuberculosis. She then looks at Susan Sontag’s Illness As Metaphor, Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “White Glasses,” showing how these breast cancer survivors draw on feminist health practices of the 1970s and also anticipate the figure that would appear in the wake of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s—the “politicized patient.” She further reveals how narratives written by doctors Abraham Verghese and Rafael Campo about treating people with AIDS can disrupt the doctor–patient hierarchy, and she explores practices of witnessing that emerge in writing by Paul Monette and John Bayley. Through these records of intensely personal yet universal experience, Diedrich demonstrates how language both captures and fails to capture these “scenes of loss” and how illness narratives affect the literary, medical, and cultural contexts from which they arise. Finally, by examining the ways in which the sick speak and are spoken for, she argues for an ethics of failure—the revaluation of loss as creating new possibilities for how we live and die. Lisa Diedrich is assistant professor of women’s studies at Stony Brook University.
