Historical nightmares and imaginative violence in American women's writings /
Gottfried, Amy S.,1960-
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,
1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-152) and index.
Private stories rendered public: an introduction -- American spaces, American violence: a historical prologue -- Passages home, journeys outward: a reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved -- When legacy meets desire: the blues in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Beneath a layer of white: violence and nature in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping -- How to say it: art and the Holocaust in Cynthia Ozick's The shawl -- Comedic violence and the art of survival: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Love, sabotage, and the missing father: exploring the future.
American fiction
Violence in literature.
Historical fiction, American
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and history
Women and literature
Nightmares in literature.
Victims in literature.