Feminist Issues

Women's Writing as Transgression

By: Deirdre Lashgari

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Hardcover | 29 April 1995

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The contributors to this volume consider the place of violence in the works of acclaimed writers like Adrienne Rich, Harriet Jacobs, Virginia Woolf and Audre Lord, as well as in the works of less-well-known writers like Senegal's Mariama Ba, Lebanon's Etel Adnan, and Jamaica's Sistren Collective.

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Preface
Introduction: To Speak the Unspeakable: Implications of Gender, "Race," Class, and Culture	p. 1
The "Knife in the Tongue": The Politics of Speech and Silence
"Unnameable by Choice": Multivalent Silences in Adrienne Rich's Time's Power	p. 25
The Devil and the Virgin: Writing Sexual Abuse in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	p. 38
"It's an Unbelievable Story": Testimony and Truth in the Work of Rosario Ferre and Rigoberta Menchu	p. 62
Native Witness, White "Translator": The Problematics of Tran/scribing in Elsa Joubert's Poppie Nongena	p. 80
Domestic Politics: Violence on the Home Front
From the Country of the Colonized: Virginia Woolf on Growing Up Female in Victorian England	p. 95
The Silent Child within the Angry Woman: Exorcising Incest in Sylvia Molloy's Certificate of Absence	p. 111
The Unspeakable: Mary Gordon and the Angry Mother's Voices	p. 124
Dead Angels: Are We Killing the Mother in the House?	p. 135
Structures of Oppression: Subjectivity and the Social Order
Angry Eyes and Closed Lips: Forces of Revolution in Nawal el Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile	p. 147
Economic Violence in Postcolonial Senegal: Noisy Silence in Novels by Mariama Ba and Aminata Sow Fall	p. 158
Up against the National Canon: Women's War Memoirs from Malaysia and Singapore	p. 172
The Muslim Woman as Hero in Daneshvar's Savushun: A Novel about Modern Iran	p. 189
Collective Silence, Collective Voice: Toward Community
"The Law Is the Law - and a Bad Stove Is a Bad Stove": Subversive Justice and Layers of Collusion in "A Jury of Her Peers"	p. 203
Returning to the Site of Violence: The Restructuring of Slavery's Legacy in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose	p. 219
The Holocaust and the Witnessing Imagination	p. 231
Dangerous Admissions: Opening Stages to Violence, Anger, and Healing in African Diaspora Theater	p. 247
Revolting Texts: Transgression (and) Transformation
Mastectomy, Misogyny, and Media: Toward an Inclusive Politics and Poetics of Breast Cancer	p. 267
"Love Is a Supreme Violence": The Deconstruction of Gendered Space in Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie-Rose	p. 282
Disrupting the Deadly Stillness: Janice Mirikitani's Poetics of Violence	p. 291
"Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed": Gloria Anzaldua's (R)evolution of Voice	p. 305
Works Cited	p. 323
Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 349
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