Table of Contents
Introduction: Stories as Medicine
Kate Rose
Part 1: Migration
Chapter 1: Dystopic Dissonance: Migrant Women’s Alienation in Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers
Augusta Atinuke Irele
Chapter 2: "Tear Down This Wall": Borders, Limits, and National Belonging in South Asian Postcolonial Literature
Gaura Narayan
Chapter 3: Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene Poetics: Disability, Dispossession, and Diaspora
C. R. Grimmer
Chapter 4: Linda Lê: A Literature of Displacement
Gloria Kwok
Chapter 5:
Languages at war in Latin American women writers
Liliana Guadalupe Chavez Diaz
Chapter 6: They Won’t Take Me Alive: Feminist Histories and Literary Journalism in El Salvador
Jeffrey Peer
Part 2: Indigeneity
Chapter 7: Dreams in a Time of Dystopic Neocolonialism: Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves
Megan E. Cannella
Chapter 8: Indigenous Libretto and Aural Memory: Forms of Translation in The Sun Dance and El Circo Anahuac
Clarissa Castaneda
Chapter 9: Not Lost: ‘We are people of the land. We are clay people, people of the mounds’
Margaret McMurtrey
Chapter 10: Writing Memory, Practising Resistance: History and Memory in Easterine Kire’s Novels
Payel Ghosh
Chapter 11: Women’s Bodies in Indigenous Literatures: A Comparative Analysis from Contemporary Novels of Three Continents
Kate Rose
Part 3: Trauma
Chapter 12: Magical Combat in Central Africa: Kim Nguyen’s War Witch
Joya Uraizee
Chapter 13: From Bearing to Burying: Enacting Embodied Memories of Darfur Genocide in the Poetry of Emtithal Mahmoud
Mayy ElHayawi
Chapter 14: Masculine Failure: Rape Culture and Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Hakyoung Ahn
Chapter 15: The Technology of Anguish: (Re)Imagining Post-9/11 Trauma in Tamora Pierce’s Fantasy Universes
Whitney S. May
Chapter 16: Women with Swords: Reinvention of Female Warriors in Contemporary Chinese Women's Writings
Xue Wei
