Victims and the Postmodern Narrative or Doing Violence to the Body

Chapter 1 Doing Violence to the Body: an Ethic of Reading and Writing

Chapter 2 Through the Eyes of a Child: Looking for Victims in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

Chapter 3 An Apocalypse of Race and Gender: Body Violence and Forming Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Chapter 4 The Body Human: Violating the Self and Violating the Other, or Reading the Silenced Narrative — Patrick Süskind’s Perfume

Chapter 5 The Body Human and the Body Community: Getting the Story Write/Right in D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel

Chapter 6 The Games Body-Politics Plays: a Rhetoric of Secrecy in Ian McEwan’s The Innocent

Chapter 7 Desiring Language and the Language of Desire: Consummating Body-Politics in J. M. Coetzee’s The Age of Iron

Chapter 8 (Re)telling the Old, Old Story

Chapter 9 Concluding an Ethic of Reading and Writing: Literary Criticism as Confession