| Description |
xiii, 351 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Feminist issues |
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Feminist issues (Charlottesville, Va.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-343) and index. |
| Contents |
"Unnameable by choice" : multivalent silences in Adrienne Rich's "Time's power" / Jane Hoogestraat -- Devil and the virgin : writing sexual abuse in "Incidents in the life of a slave girl" / Anne B. Dalton -- "It's an unbelievable story" : testimony and truth in the work of Rosario Ferré and Rigoberta Menchú / George B. Handley -- Native witness, white "translator" : the problematics of tran/scribing in Elsa Joubert's "Poppie nongena" / Kristi Dalven -- From the country of the colonized : Virginia Woolf on growing up female in Victorian England / Merry M. Pawlowski -- |
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Silent child within the angry woman : exorcising incest in Sylvia Molloy's "Certificate of absence" / Gisela Norat -- Unspeakable : Mary Gordon and the angry mother's voices / Pamela Smiley -- Dead angels : are we killing the mother in the house? / Ruth O. Saxton -- Angry eyes and closed lips : forces of revolution in Nawal el Saadawi's "God dies by the nile" / Madhuchhanda Mitra -- Economic violence in postcolonial Senegal : noisy silence in novels by Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall / Dorothy Davis Wills -- |
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Up against the national canon : women's war memoirs from Malaysia and Singapore / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Muslim woman as hero in Daneshvar's "Savushun" : a novel about modern Iran / Michaela Cook -- "Law is the law--and a bad stove is a bad stove" : subversive justice and layers of collusion in "A jury of her peers" / Sherri Hallgren -- Returning to the site of violence : the restructuring of slavery's legacy in Sherley Anne Williams's "Dessa rose" / Ann E. Trapasso -- |
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Holocaust and the witnessing imagination / S. Lillian Kremer -- Dangerous admissions : opening stages to violence, anger, and healing in African diaspora theater / Vèvè A. Clark -- Mastectomy, misogyny, and media : toward an inclusive politics and poetics of breast cancer / Roseanne Lucia Quinn -- "Love is a supreme violence" : the deconstruction of gendered space in Etel Adnan's "Sitt Marie-Rose" / Madeline Cassidy -- Disrupting the deadly stillness : Janice Mirikitani's poetics of violence / Deidre Lashgari -- "Wild tongues can't be tamed" : Gloria Anzaldúa's (r)evolution of voice / Ann E. Reuman. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Deviant behavior in literature.
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Violence in literature.
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Feminism and literature.
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| Indexed Term |
Literature Special subjects Violence |
| Added Author |
Lashgari, Deirdre.
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| ISBN |
0813914922 cloth |
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0813914930 paper |
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