Title Narrating violence, constructing collective identities : to witness these wrongs unspeakable / Giti Chandra

Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages) Contents Contents -- Introduction: 'Non-Realism: The Once and Future Reality' Or 'Twice Abused Bodies and the Question of Agency' -- The Mystery of Violence -- 'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable': The Metaphorical, the Material and the Violenced Body' -- The Poison in the Womb: Dis/placing the Violenced Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Narrating Collectivity from Violence: The Case of Slavery and World War I in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula -- The Voice and the Book: Collectivity, Orality and Novelistic Discourse -- Immigration and Identity: The Case of Feudalism and the Second World War in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club -- 'An Invisible Country, A True Chile': The Body of Evidence in Isabel Allende's House of Spirits -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This significant new book is an interdisciplinary study of violence, its narrativisation and affects, of collective identity formation, national, ethnic and racial. It studies the ways in which these are gendered by women who are subjected to violence, who survive these conflicts and who narrate both the violence and the collective identity. The study is focused around widely-read novels written by women authors over the last 30 or so years. Each of these novels revisits sites of extreme or intense violence in the lives both of its protagonists and of the collective to which they belong in the process of defining the identity of that collective. Each of these novels also deals with a different historical event of violence: Toni Morrison₂s Beloved (slavery) and Sula (World War I), Amy Tan₂s The Joy Luck Club (World War II), Maxine Hong Kingston₂s The Woman Warrior (feudal China), and Isabel Allende₂s The House of Spirits (State Terrorism). The book reads texts as disparate as Shakespeare₂s Titus Andronicus and the Bible to create a theoretical framework for the constructions of individual and collective identities that are deeply embedded in these narratives of violence. Each text interrogates the nature of the collective formed. In form and narrative strategies these texts deploy non-real tropes and elements, using these to index realities in registers other than the empirical, figure forth realities that strain at the limits of human comprehension and endurance and, finally, to gesture towards future realities too difficult to imagine Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-168) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Morrison, Toni. Sula. Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman warrior Tan, Amy. Joy Luck Club. Allende, Isabel. Casa de los espíritus. English. SUBJECT Morrison -- Toni -- Beloved. blmlsh Morrison -- Toni -- Sula. blmlsh Kingston -- Maxine Hong -- Woman warrior. blmlsh Tan -- Amy -- Joy Luck Club. blmlsh Allende -- Isabel -- Casa de los espíritus. blmlsh Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019. nta Kingston, Maxine Hong, 1940- nta Tan, Amy, 1952- nta Allende, Isabel, 1942- nta Beloved (Morrison, Toni) fast Casa de los espíritus (Allende, Isabel) fast Joy Luck Club (Tan, Amy) fast Sula (Morrison, Toni) fast Woman warrior (Kingston, Maxine Hong) fast Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Violence in literature. Group identity in literature. Women in literature. Chilean literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism 18.06 Anglo-American literature. 18.33 Spanish-American literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Women authors Chilean literature -- Women authors Group identity in literature Violence in literature Women in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230233904 0230233902

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