Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: If We Could Learn to Learn from Pain ix
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. 1. History (Herstory) and Theory, or Doing Justice to Redemptive Suffering 1
6. 2. Adrienne Rich and the “Long Dialogue Between Art and Justice” 39
7. 3. Love and Mercy: Toni Morrison’s Paradox of Redemptive Suffering 86
8. 4. Ana Castillo, Mexican M.O.M.A.S., and a Hermeneutic of Liberation 125
9. 5. Silent (in the Face of) Suffering? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Postcolonial Cultural Hermeneutics 168
10. Conclusion: Learning to Learn 207
11. Notes 233
12. Bibliography 269
13. List of Credits 291
14. Index 293