Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities

1. Introduction: Non-realism: the Once and Future Reality or Twice Abused Bodies and the Question of Agency
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2. The Mystery of Violence
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3. ‘To witness … these wrongs unspeakable’: the Metaphorical, the Material and the Violenced Body
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4. Remembering and Dismembering: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sula
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5. Immigration and Identity: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club
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6. ‘An invisible country, a true Chile’: the Body of Evidence in Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits
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Avainsanat: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Postcolonial/World Literature, Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Fiction