Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women’s Writing

1. Introduction What’s (Still) Wrong with Images of Women?
Angela Laflen

Part I. Coming-of-Age with Mass Media

2. (Re)Visualizing History in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Angela Laflen

3. Transforming Culture and Consciousness in Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country
Angela Laflen

Part II. Witnessing Visual Manipulation

4. There Were Signs and I Missed Them
Angela Laflen

5. The Politics of Vanishing
Angela Laflen

Part III. Spectatorship in an Expanded Field of Vision

6. Against Visual Objectivity in Gish Jen’s “Birthmates” and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “The Ultrasound”
Angela Laflen

7. Queering Spectatorship in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Angela Laflen

8. Conclusion Confronting Visuality in the Digital Age
Angela Laflen

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Arts, Literary History