Current Search: Alcoholism in literature (x)
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Title
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Waking Up.
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Creator
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Parker, Pamela Cox., Florida Atlantic University, Schwartz, Jason
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Abstract/Description
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Waking Up is an addiction novel that traces the decline of twentysomething Rabbit Reynolds. Rabbit has found a strategy for coping with her intense loneliness---anesthetic alcoholism. The novel is about her desperate need for approval, validation, and external measures of self-worth, and the ways in which that need manifests itself in substance abuse, self-mutilation, and hollow relationships. Waking Up opens with Rabbit's lowest point, then goes back in time to follow her descent and,...
Show moreWaking Up is an addiction novel that traces the decline of twentysomething Rabbit Reynolds. Rabbit has found a strategy for coping with her intense loneliness---anesthetic alcoholism. The novel is about her desperate need for approval, validation, and external measures of self-worth, and the ways in which that need manifests itself in substance abuse, self-mutilation, and hollow relationships. Waking Up opens with Rabbit's lowest point, then goes back in time to follow her descent and, finally, her first steps toward recovery.
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Date Issued
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2003
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13091
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Subject Headings
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Alcoholism in literature, Self-esteem in literature, Loneliness in literature
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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Title
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Variations on the theme of alcoholism in Rosario Castellanos's indigenist literature: A multidisciplinary analysis.
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Creator
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Jarboe, Jill Fulton., Florida Atlantic University, Erro-Peralta, Nora
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Abstract/Description
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Alcoholism is one of the many grave social problems in Mexico that Rosario Castellanos depicts in her novels, short stories and plays. In her Indigenist works, Castellanos connects alcohol abuse to other social ills: poverty, violence, prejudice, exploitation of Indians and mistreatment of women and children. She has illuminated a complex, interconnected web of social crises of which alcohol is often at the center. Furthermore, anthropological, historical and medical studies on alcohol use in...
Show moreAlcoholism is one of the many grave social problems in Mexico that Rosario Castellanos depicts in her novels, short stories and plays. In her Indigenist works, Castellanos connects alcohol abuse to other social ills: poverty, violence, prejudice, exploitation of Indians and mistreatment of women and children. She has illuminated a complex, interconnected web of social crises of which alcohol is often at the center. Furthermore, anthropological, historical and medical studies on alcohol use in the locations and times in which these works take place indicate that her descriptions of the problems are based on fact. This analysis suggests that Castellanos has written about the alcohol issue in order to expose the facts surrounding it and to promote social change.
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Date Issued
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1993
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14902
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Subject Headings
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Castellanos, Rosario--Criticism and interpretation, Drinking in literature, Indians of Mexico--Alcohol use
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Document (PDF)
