The shapes of silence : writing by women of colour and the politics of testimony / Proma Tagore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tagore, Proma, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prose literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Prose literature.

Prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Reportage literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Reportage literature.

Reportage literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Women and literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing from the insights of subaltern studies and postcolonial feminisms, Proma Tagore brings together the work of a diverse group of writers - Toni Morrison, Shani Mootoo, Louise Erdrich, M.K. Indira, Rashsundari Debi, and Mahasweta Devi. She focuses on the visceral, affective nature of their narratives and explores the way that personal and historical trauma, initially silenced, may be recorded across generations, as well as across complex national, racial, gender, and sexual lines.

Contents:

Silence, speech, voice, and the politics of testimony

Witnessing as testimony : Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night

Testimonial remembrance and historical narration : Louise Erdrich's Tracks and M.K. Indira's Phaniyamma

Testimony, translation, and subalternity : Rashsundari Debi's Amar Jiban and Mahasweta Devi's Imaginary maps

Witnessing, remembrance, and resistance : living and embodied archives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-86733-4

9786612867330

0-7735-7689-4

OCLC:

706920289