Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: 'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable'

by G. Chandra

Overview

A study of distinct forms of mass violence, the narratives each kind demands, and the collective identities constructed from and upon these, this book focuses around readings of popular and influential novels such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230219625
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/17/2008
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

GITI CHANDRA teaches English Literature at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India. Her Doctoral thesis is from Rutgers University, NJ, and she has been a Course Writer for the Indira Gandhi National Open University.

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: 'Non-Realism: The Once and Future Reality' Or 'Twice Abused Bodies and the Question of Agency' The Mystery of Violence 'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable': The Metaphorical, the Material and the Violenced Body' The Poison in the Womb: Dis/placing the Violenced Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved Narrating Collectivity from Violence: The Case of Slavery and World War I in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula The Voice and the Book: Collectivity, Orality and Novelistic Discourse Immigration and Identity: The Case of Feudalism and the Second World War in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club 'An Invisible Country, A True Chile': The Body of Evidence in Isabel Allende's House of Spirits Bibliography Index