Creating safe space : violence and women's writing / edited by Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuribayashi, Tomoko.

Tharp, Julie Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

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

English literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain.

Child abuse in literature.

Sex crimes in literature.

Feminism and literature.

Violence in literature.

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Incest in literature.

Women and literature--English-speaking countries.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Summary:

"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 redefine their experiences of abuse, to give themselves a voice in order to break the silence imposed on women in patriarchal society, and to start challenging and changing a culture that objectifies, degrades, and destroys women." "A number of essays illuminate ways in which writing can be employed in women's workshops and college classrooms. They bridge the interdisciplinary distances among the fields of literary criticism, creative writing, psychology, sociology, social welfare, history, journalism, education, and others in which feminist scholars have worked to draw public attention to, and provide solutions to, the various kinds of abuse women endure."--Jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-0981-8

0-585-07860-2