Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities : 'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable' (Paperback)

Contents Introduction: 'Non-Realism: The Once and Future Reality' Or 'Twice Abused Bodies and the Question of Agency' The Mystery of Violence 'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable': The Metaphorical, the Material and the Violenced Body' The Poison in the Womb: Dis/placing the Violenced Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved Narrating Collectivity from Violence: The Case of Slavery and World War I in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula The Voice and the Book: Collectivity, Orality and Novelistic Discourse Immigration and Identity: The Case of Feudalism and the Second World War in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club 'An Invisible Country, A True Chile': The Body of Evidence in Isabel Allende's House of Spirits Bibliography Index