Feminism, literature and rape narratives : violence and violation / edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson.

New York : Routledge, 2010.

xxii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Rape by proxy in contemporary Caribbean women's fiction / Carine M. Mardorossian -- Sabotaging the language of pride : Toni Morrison's representations of rape / Tessa Roynon -- Revising Chicana womanhood : gender violence in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Robin E. Field -- Between 'Awra and Arab literary feminism : sexual violence and representational crisis in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero / Anna Ball -- Writing rape : the politics of resistance in Yvonne Vera's novels / Fiona McCann -- 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 -- Testimony and silence : sexual violence and the Holocaust / Zoë Waxman -- 'Mum is the word' : gender violence, displacement and the refugee camp in Yasmin Ladha's documentary-fiction / Belén Martín-Lucas -- Double violation? : (not) talking about sexual violence in contemporary South Asia / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Questioning truth and reconciliation : writing rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the dust / Sorcha Gunne -- Signifying rape : problems of representing sexual violence on stage / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- The wound and the mask : rape, recovery and poetry in Pascale Petit's The wounded deer: fourteen poems after Frida Kahlo / Zoë Brigley Thompson -- Rape, power, realism and the fantastic on television / Lorna Jowett.

Includes bibliographical references and index.