Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Reading the Unconscious in le Slie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead 25
6. Freud and Feminism in Gayl Jones’s Corregido ra and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina 39
7. Hysteria and Trauma in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood; Or, The Hidden Self 57
8. Postmodern Realism, Truth, and Lies in Joyce Carol Oates’s What I Lived For 75
9. Intertextuality and Poststructural Realism in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper 99
10. Conclusion 131
11. Notes 135
12. Works Cited 153
13. Index 165