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In the world in which we live, sickness is considered a normal part of many people’s lives. In fact, the more we seem to advance technologically, the sicker more people are becoming. New diseases and aches, linked to social and psychological factors, are increasing; more people in modern, metropolitan societies are seeking alternative remedies. What can we do when we are sick? What do we ask for? Who will minister to us? What do we give ourselves? I say look to the power of words.
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Marlene Nourbese Philip, She Tires Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Speaks (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: Ragweed Press, 1989), 97.
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (New York: Washington Square Press, 1983), 108.
Ibid., 175.
Ibid., 235.
Paule Marshall, Praisesong for a Widow (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983), 204–5.
Ibid., 236.
Ibid., 160–61.
Erna Brodber, Myal (London: New Beacon Books, 1988), 84.
Ibid. 67.
Ibid., 93.
Ibid., 107.
Ibid., 109.
Opal Palmer Adisa, It Begins with Tears (London: Heinemann, 1997), 216.
Ibid., 218.
Ibid., 222.
Ibid., 40.
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Adisa, O.P. (2001). A Writer/Healer: Literature, A Blueprint for Healing. In: Olmos, M.F., Paravisini-Gebert, L. (eds) Healing Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07647-2_11
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