Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women’s Writing

Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at Marist College, USA.

• 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)