Feminism, literature and rape narratives
Subtitle: violence and violation
By: edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson.
Contributors: Gunne, Sorcha, 1980-; Brigley, Zoë.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- v. 27
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415806084
Subjects: Rape in literature; Violence in literature; Women in literature; Feminist literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rape by proxy in contemporary Caribbean women's fiction / Carine M. Mardorossian; title: Sabotaging the language of pride: Toni Morrison's representations of rape / Tessa Roynon; title: Revising Chicana womanhood: gender violence in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Robin E. Field; title: Resistance metaphors:  between Awra and Arab feminism: sexual violence and representational crisis in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero / Anna Ball; title: Writing rape: the politics of resistance in Yvonne Vera's novels / Fiona McCann; title: Il/legitimacy: sexual violence, mental health, and resisting abjection in Camilla Gibb's mouthing the words and Elizabeth Ruth's Ten good seconds of silence / Susan Billingham; title: The protest of silence: Testimony and silence: sexual violence and the holocaust / Zoe Waxman; title: Mum is the word: gender violence, displacement and the refugee camp in Yasmin Ladha's documentary-fiction / Belin Martin-Lucas; title: Double violation? (not) talking about sexual violence in contemporary South Asia / Ananya Jahanara Kabir; title: Questioning truth and reconciliation: writing rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the dust / Sorcha Gunne; title: The question of the visual: Signifying rape: problems of representing sexual violence on stage / Lisa Fitzpatrick; title: The wound and the mask: rape, recovery and poetry in Pascale Petit's the wounded deer: fourteen poems after Frida Kahlo / Zoe Brigley Thompson; title: Rape, power, realism and the fantastic on television / Lorna Jowett.