The fragmented female body and identity
Subtitle: the postmodern, feminist, and multiethnic writings of Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Gayl Jones, Emma Pérez, Paula Gunn Allen, and Kathy Acker
By: Pamela B. June
Series: Modern American literature -- v. 56
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433110504
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : multiethnic fragmentation and women's community; title: The fragmented body and maternal healing : the examples of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée; title: Reliving African matrilineage : re-membering the past in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and Gayl Jones's Corregidora; title: Childhood scars and women's love in Emma Pérez's Gulf dreams and Paula Gunn Allen's The woman who owned the shadows; title: The case of the missing women : chaos and the absence of women's bonds in Kathy Acker's works; title: Conclusion : resistance and feminist healing.