Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s

Marinella Rodi-Risberg is an affiliated researcher at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has published on representations of trauma in journals and chapters, including in Trauma and Literature (2018), and is co-editor of Transnational Crime Fiction: Mobility, Borders, and Detection (2020).

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Contextualizing the Wound and the Political Literary Voice in the Theory of Trauma.- Chapter 2: Trauma, Temporality, and Testimony: The Enslaved Daughter’s Body in Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie.- Chapter 3: Trauma, “Trash,” and Memory in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina.- Chapter 4: Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon: Trauma, Settler Colonialism, and Storytelling.- Chapter 5: Transnational Trauma and Testimonio in Denise Chávez’s Face of an Angel.- Chapter 6: Trauma, Survival, and Intertextuality in Patricia Chao’s Monkey King.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Trauma and Resistance in a Literary Third Voice at the Intersections.