List of Figures Foreword: ‘An Unsafe Subject’, Moniza Alvi, Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: Feminism without Borders: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Retheroizing Rape, Zoë Brigley Thompson and Sorcha Gunne Part I: Subverting the Story 2: Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Fiction, Carine M. Mardorossian 3: Sabotaging the Language of Pride: Toni Morrison's Representations of Rape, Tessa Roynon 4: Revising Chicana Womanhood: Gender Violence in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, Robin E. Field Part II: Resistance Metaphors 5: Between ‘Awra and Arab Feminism: Sexual Violence and Representational Crisis in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero, Anna Ball 6: Writing Rape: The Politics of Resistance in Yvonne Vera’s Novels, Fiona McCann 7: Il/legitimacy: Sexual Violence, Mental Health, and Resisting Abjection in Camilla Gibb’s Mouthing the Words and Elizabeth Ruth’s Ten Good Seconds of Silence, Susan Billingham Part III: The Protest of Silence 8: Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust, Zoe Waxman 9: "Mum is the word": Gender Violence, Displacement and the Refugee Camp in Yasmin Ladha’s Documentary-Fiction, Belén Martín-Lucas 10: Double Violation? (Not) Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia, Ananya Jahanara Kabir 11: Questioning Truth and Reconciliation: Writing Rape in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope’s Dancing in the Dust, Sorcha Gunne Part IV: The Question of the Visual 12: Signifying Rape: Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage, Lisa Fitzpatrick 13: The Wound and the Mask: Rape, Recovery and Poetry in Pascale Petit’s The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems After Frida Kahlo, Zoë Brigley Thompson 14: Rape, Power, Realism and the Fantastic on Television, Lorna Jowett List of Contributors Index
Zoe Brigley is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Northampton. Sorcha Gunne is a tutor at the University of Warwick.
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