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Called to Healing: Reflections on the Power of Earth's Stories in Women's Lives »

Authors: Jean Troy-Smith
ISBN-13: 9780791429754, ISBN-10: 079142975X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: August 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jean Troy-Smith

Book Synopsis

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.

Booknews

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)

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	The Stories Begin	1
Pt. II	Storytelling and Truthtelling: "I remember and I recall"	17
Pt. III	"Tell me a story that's true"	57
	Dulcie Adelaid: a woman from the Earth in Cactus Thorn by Mary Austin	65
	The Journeys of Gertie and Mrs. Anderson in The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow	89
	Gertie in Kentucky	89
	Gertie in Detroit	98
	Mrs. Anderson: portrait of an angel	109
	Revisioning goddess consciousness in The Fires of Bride by Ellen Galford	117
	A weave of women in Send My Roots Rain by Ibis Gomez-Vega	143
Pt. IV	Sacred Spaces: the need to name and claim them in our lives	171
	Notes	183
	Works Cited	197
	Index	203