TY - BOOK ID - 119249805 TI - (P)rescription narratives : feminist medical fiction and the failure of American censorship PY - 2023 SN - 147449322X 1474493211 147449319X PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American fiction KW - Censorship KW - Disabilities in literature. KW - Human body in literature. KW - Medical fiction, American KW - Women in literature. KW - Women with disabilities in literature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist. KW - Physically handicapped women in literature KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - American medical fiction KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature KW - Book censorship KW - Books KW - Literature KW - Literature and morals KW - Anticensorship activists KW - Challenged books KW - Expurgated books KW - Intellectual freedom KW - Prohibited books KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119249805 AB - '(P)rescription Narratives' reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a period of censorship in American history. It astutely argues that women writers of medical fiction practice storytelling as a form of narrative medicine that prescribes various forms of healing as an antidote to the shame engineered by an American culture of censorship. ER -