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Pink shadows: A comparison of the internal/external in Cancer Vixen and The Cancer Journals

dc.contributor.advisor Chansky, Ricia A.
dc.contributor.author Roberts, Krista E.
dc.contributor.college College of Arts and Sciences - Arts en_US
dc.contributor.committee Lamore, Eric D.
dc.contributor.committee Mazak, Catherine
dc.contributor.committee Hipchen, Emily
dc.contributor.committee Rivera, Rosita
dc.contributor.department Department of English en_US
dc.contributor.representative Maldonado, Noemi
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-13T19:44:12Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-13T19:44:12Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.description.abstract This thesis reads the breast cancer memoir, Cancer Vixen by Marisa Marchetto, in the shadow of The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, working to situate the text within the context of its very complex relationships with trauma telling and self-help motives. While both of these cancer narratives have been taken up in academic discourse, few scholars have sought to challenge the relegation of trauma metaphors to the literal background of Cancer Vixen, a practice informed by Lorde’s focus on the political (as opposed to the emotional) in her text. This thesis connects the political act of this placement of trauma in Cancer Vixen in order to call attention to the ways in which Marchetto devalues other women, an act that directly opposes Lorde’s text. Ultimately, this project argues that Cancer Vixen’s position as a self-help text shapes the ways in which breast cancer politics are represented and that this text, therefore, aligns more closely with the hyper-positive rhetorics of pink ribbon philanthropy than it does with Lorde’s call to concrete political actions.
dc.description.abstract Esta tesis tiene como objetivo situar las narrativas autobiográficas de cáncer de mama, The Cancer Journals por Audre Lorde y Cancer Vixen por Marisa Marchetto, dentro del contexto de la relación bastante compleja con narrativas de trauma y motivos de autoayuda. Mientras ambas de estos textos han sido ocupadas en discursos académicos, pocos estudiosos han intentado desafiar la relegación de las metáforas de trauma hacia un trasfondo literal de Cancer Vixen, una práctica informada por el enfoque de Lorde en la política (a diferencia de lo emocional) en su texto. Esta tesis intenta conectar el acto político de esta colocación de trauma en Cancer Vixen con el propósito de llamar la atención sobre las formas que Marchetto devalúa otras mujeres; un acto que opone directamente el texto de Lorde. Finalmente, argumento que la posición de Cancer Vixen como un texto de autoayuda moldea la forma en que la política de cáncer de mama es representado, y que este texto como representación se alinea más estrechamente con la retorica híper-positiva de la filantropía del lazo rosado que con la llamada de acción de Lorde.
dc.description.graduationSemester Fall en_US
dc.description.graduationYear 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11801/873
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.rights.holder (c) 2014 Krista E. Roberts en_US
dc.rights.license All rights reserved en_US
dc.subject Breast cancer patients' writings en_US
dc.subject Pink ribbon en_US
dc.subject Self-help genre en_US
dc.subject Memoirs en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Cancer in literature en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Cancer patients' writings, American en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Breast cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Marchetto, Marisa Acocella -- Comic books, strips, etc. en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Lorde, Audre -- Diaries en_US
dc.title Pink shadows: A comparison of the internal/external in Cancer Vixen and The Cancer Journals en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dspace.entity.type Publication
thesis.degree.discipline English Education en_US
thesis.degree.level M.A.E.E. en_US
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