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The will to heal : psychological recovery in the novels of Latina writers / Felicia Lynne Fahey.
- Title
- The will to heal : psychological recovery in the novels of Latina writers / Felicia Lynne Fahey.
- Author
- Fahey, Felicia Lynne, 1967-
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ7081.5 .F34 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 212 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "For the past three decades, Latin American and Latina women writers have used autobiography, fiction, and a blend of the two genres to address the psychological struggle to heal from both personal and political traumas. Felicia Fahey focuses on six fictional autobiographies as literary representations of psychological recovery."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Lifting the weight of terror : disembodiment in Alina Diaconú's El penúltimo viaje -- Surviving terror : mourning loss in Manuela Fingueret's Hija del silencio -- Going home : returning from exile in Luisa Valenzuela's La travesía -- (Un)romancing Mexico : sexual healing in Sara Sefchovich's Demasiado amor -- Crossing with an angel : spiritual cure in Laura Restrepo's Dulce compañía -- No way home : traumatic returns in Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala letters.
- ISBN
- 9780826328557 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0826328555 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007017834
- OCLC
- 123955147
- SCSB-11382950
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library