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Victims and the postmodern narrative, or, doing violence to the body: an ethic of reading and writing

1997; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 34; Issue: 05 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.34-2629

1943-5975

Mark Ledbetter,

Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

General Editor's Preface David Jasper - Preface - Doing Violence to the Body: An Ethic of Reading and Writing - Through the Eyes of a Child: Looking for Victims in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye - An Apocalypse of Race and Gender: Body Violence and Forming Identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved - The Body Human: Violating the Self and Violating the Other or Reading the Silenced Narrative, Patrick Suskind's Perfume - The Body Human and the Body Community: Getting the Story Write/Right in D.M. Thomas' The White Hotel - The Games Body-Politics Plays: A Rhetoric of Secrecy in Ian McEwan's The Innocent - Desiring Language and the Language of Desire: Consummating Body-Politics in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron - [Re]Telling the Old, Old Story - Concluding an Ethic of Reading and Writing: Literary Criticism as Confession - Select Bibliography - Index