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Creating safe space : violence and women's writing /

Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing defines the role of women's writing in the face of violence and suggests the degree to which violence has affected women from diverse periods, places, and social backgrounds. The book examines the ways in which women use their writing to re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kuribayashi, Tomoko, Tharp, Julie Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I stand here naked, and best dressed in theory: feminist re-fashionings of academic discourse / Brenda Daly
  • The 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 Brontë'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
  • The 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.