Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-152) and index.
Contents
Reading rape : Sanctuary and The women of Brewster Place --Reading torture : 1984 and Amnesty International -- Sweet pain and charred bodies : figuring violence in The white hotel -- Envisioning violence : seeing/selling the body in Last exit to Brooklyn -- American psycho and the American psyche : reading the forbidden text -- "Known in the brain and known in the flesh" : gender, race, and the vulnerable body in Tracks.