| Description |
vi, 239 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index. |
| Contents |
I stand here naked, and best dressed in theory: feminist re-fashionings of academic discourse / Brenda Daly -- Solace of separation: feminist theory, autobiography, Edith Wharton, and me / Susan L. Woods -- Fighting back on paper and in real life: sexual abuse narratives and the creation of safe space / Sonia C. Apgar -- Incest and rage in Charlotte Bronte's novelettes / Susan Anne Carlson -- Safe space or danger zone?: incest and the paradox of writing in Woolf's life / Diana L. Swanson -- "One need not be a chamber--to be haunted": Emily Dickinson's haunted space / Mary Jo Dondlinger -- "There is no home there": re(his)tor(iciz)ing captivity and the other in Spofford's "Circumstance" / Lisa Logan -- "Entirely unprotected": Rebecca Ketcham's trail diary / Mary Sylwester -- Safe space and storytelling: Willa Cather's Shadows on the rock / Linda K. Karell -- Chicana girl writes her way in and out: space and bilingualism in Sandra Cisneros' The house on Mango Street / Tomoko Kuribayashi -- Abuse and its pleasures: compensatory fantasy in the popular fiction of Anne Rice / Annalee Newitz -- On blues, autobiography, and performative utterance: the jouissance of Alberta Hunter / Kari J. Winter -- "In the center of my body is a rift": trauma and recovery in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka / Julie Tharp. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain.
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Child abuse in literature.
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Sex crimes in literature.
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Feminism and literature.
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Violence in literature.
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Incest in literature.
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| Added Author |
Kuribayashi, Tomoko.
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Tharp, Julie Ann.
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| ISBN |
0791435636 (alk. paper) |
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0791435644 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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