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Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by spe- cialists in the fi eld. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney 1. Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper 2. The Postcolonial Jane Austen edited by You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 3. Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry: Making Style by Denise deCaires Narain 4. African Literature, Animism and Politics by Caroline Rooney 5. Caribbean-English Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition by Tobias Döring 6. Islands in History and Representation edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith 7. Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1822-1922 by Anindyo Roy 8. Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939: ‘A Hot Place, Belonging To Us’ by Evelyn O’Callaghan 9. Postcolonial Pacifi c Writing: Representations of the Body by Michelle Keown 10. Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew 11. Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence by Priyamvada Gopal 12. Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire by Terry Collits 13. American Pacifi cism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination by Paul Lyons 14. Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacifi c: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction by Susan Y. Najita 15. Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place by Minoli Salgado 16. Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary by Vijay Mishra 17. Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English by Neelam Srivastava 18. English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics by Pramod K. Nayar 19. Decolonising Gender: Literature, Enlightenment and the Feminine Real by Caroline Rooney 20. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography by David Huddart 21. Contemporary Arab Women Writers by Anastasia Valassopoulos 22. Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire by Ben Grant 23. Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture by Stefan Helgesson 24. Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa by James Graham 25. Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden by Sharae Deckard 26. The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices by Matthew Boyd Goldie 27. Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson Related Titles Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation by Bart Moore-Gilbert Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives Violence and Violation Edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson NEW YORK AND LONDON First published 2010 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2010 Taylor & Francis Typeset in Baskerville by IBT Global Printed and bound in United States by IBT Global. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now know nor hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminism, literature and rape narratives : violence and violation / edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zoë Brigley Thompson. p. cm.—(Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; v. 27) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Rape in literature. 2. Violence in literature. 3. Women in literature. 4. Feminist literature—History and criticism. I. Gunne, Sorcha. II. Brigley Thompson, Zoë. PN56.R24F46 2009 809'.933556—dc22 2009033862 ISBN10: 0-415-80608-9 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-80608-4 (hbk) I will speak a dark language with the music of a harp. —Anne Michaels Fiction gives eyes to the horrifi ed narrator. Eyes to see and to weep. . . —Paul Ricoeur Contents List of Figures ix Foreword: ‘An Unsafe Subject’ xi MONIZA ALVI Acknowledgements xxi 1 Introduction: Feminism without Borders: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Retheorizing Rape 1 ZOË BRIGLEY THOMPSON AND SORCHA GUNNE Part I: Subverting the Story 2 Rape by Proxy in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Fiction 23 CARINE M. MARDOROSSIAN 3 Sabotaging the Language of Pride: Toni Morrison’s Representations of Rape 38 TESSA ROYNON 4 Revising Chicana Womanhood: Gender Violence in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street 54 ROBIN E. FIELD Part II: Resistance Metaphors 5 Between ‘Awra and Arab Feminism: Sexual Violence and Representational Crisis in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero 71 ANNA BALL 6 Writing Rape: The Politics of Resistance in Yvonne Vera’s Novels 85 FIONA MCCANN viii Contents 7 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 96 SUSAN BILLINGHAM Part III: The Protest of Silence 8 Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust 117 ZOË WAXMAN 9 ‘Mum Is the Word’: Gender Violence, Displacement and the Refugee Camp in Yasmin Ladha’s Documentary-Fiction 130 BELÉN MARTÍN-LUCAS 10 Double Violation? (Not) Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia 146 ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR 11 Questioning Truth and Reconciliation: Writing Rape in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope’s Dancing in the Dust 164 SORCHA GUNNE Part IV: The Question of the Visual 12 Signifying Rape: Problems of Representing Sexual Violence on Stage 183 LISA FITZPATRICK 13 The Wound and the Mask: Rape, Recovery and Poetry in Pascale Petit’s The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems after Frida Kahlo 200 ZOË BRIGLEY THOMPSON 14 Rape, Power, Realism and the Fantastic on Television 217 LORNA JOWETT List of Editors and Contributors 233 Index 239 Figures 0.1 Front cover of Moniza Alvi’s collection, Europa (Tarset: Bloodaxe 2008). xvi 10.1 Photograph of the artist Firdousi Priyabhashini’s studio and home, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taken by Ananya Jahanara Kabir, 2009. 159 13.1 Frida Kahlo (1938), Self-Portrait with Monkey. Oil on masonite 40.6 × 30.5 cm. Buffalo (NY), Albright-Knox Gallery, Bequest of A. Conger Goodyear 1966. 211 14.1 Still from ‘Pegasus’, Battlestar Galactica Season 2 Episode 10. 226
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