Includes bibliographical references (p.[199]-210) and index.
Contents:
Exclusion as violence: Franz Fanon, Black women, and colonial violence -- Representing colonial violence: Michèle Lacrosil's Cajou, Ken Bugul's Le baobab fou and Ousmane Sembène's La noire de... -- Writing familial violence: storytelling and intergenerational violence in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle and Calixthe Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga -- Sites of violence: language, the body, and women's deterritorialization in Gisèle Pineau's L'espérance-macadam and Calixthe Beyala's "C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée -- War and political violence: Nadine Bari's, Edwidge Danticat's and Monique Ilboudo's literary responses to gender and conflict.
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