Wars We Inherit

Lori Amy is Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgia Southern University.

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Frank and Sally 3.The Hole Things Fall Into 4. Forgetting and Re-membering Interlude I: On the Event without a Witness 5. Re-membering II Interlude II : On Bearing Witness 6. If I Should Die before I Wake Interlude III : On Bearing Witness to the Process of Witnessing 7. The Pasts We Repeat I: Margaret Interlude IV : The Uncanny Return 8. The Pasts We Repeat II : Jenny 9. If Our First Language Is the Silence of Complicity, How Do We Learn to Speak? 10. The Work of War Interlude V: On the Violence of Nations in the Violence of Homes 11. Toward Re-membering a Future 12. The Work of Love 13. Conclusion References Web Sites Index

“By making the figure of the child central to the story of this book, the author charts out a dazzling path showing us how to draw lines of connection between the routine violence of a militarization and the routine if bewildering violence of the home. There is no easy way to describe how the voice of the child left me wounded even as I say how grateful I am for the author’s courage and restraint.” -Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University