Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Womens Writing [Hardcover]

Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality.Introduction: What's (Still) Wrong with Images of Women? PART I. COMING-OF-AGE WITH MASS MEDIA 1. (Re)visualizing History in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye 2. Transforming Culture and Consciousness in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country PART II. WITNESSING VISUAL MANIPULATION 3. 'There Were Signs and I Missed Them': Reading Beneath the Image in Margaret Atwood's Speculative Fiction 4. The Politics of Vanishing: Bearing Witness to the Wounded Family in Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag PART III. SPECTATORSHIP IN AN EXPANDED FIELD OF VISION 5. Against Visual Objectivity in Gish Jen's "Birthmates" and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "The Ultrasound" 6. Queering Spectatorship in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Conclusion: Confronting Visuality in the Digital Age ?

In her compelling monograph Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women's Writing, Angela Laflen offers an insightful perspective on a diverse selection of acclaimed contemporary women writers & .  Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women's Writing is a stimulating and worthwhile contribution to the evolving field of feminist scholarship on the visual in literary texts. (Roger Knight, TSWL Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 2015)

Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at Marist College, USA. Through a thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible argument, Angela Laflen uses feminism, cultural studies, and critical race theories to examine a wide range of visual representations and their effects in literature by well-known authors, such as Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood, as well as some up and cl“p