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Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities

'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable'

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  • © 2009

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  1. Giti Chandra
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Non-realism: the Once and Future Reality or Twice Abused Bodies and the Question of Agency

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    Pages 1-7

  3. The Mystery of Violence

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    Pages 8-18

  4. ‘To witness … these wrongs unspeakable’: the Metaphorical, the Material and the Violenced Body

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    Pages 19-49

  5. Remembering and Dismembering: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sula

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    Pages 50-72

  6. Immigration and Identity: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

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    Pages 73-104

  7. ‘An invisible country, a true Chile’: the Body of Evidence in Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits

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    Pages 105-153

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 154-177
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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.

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.

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