Displaced

Introduction: Stories as Medicine

Kate Rose

Part 1: Migration

Chapter 1: Dystopic Dissonance: Migrant Women's Alienation in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers

Augusta Atinuke Irele

Chapter 2: "Tear Down This Wall": Borders, Limits, and National Belonging in South Asian Postcolonial Literature

Gaura Narayan

Chapter 3: Bhanu Kapil's Schizophrene Poetics: Disability, Dispossession, and Diaspora

C. R. Grimmer

Chapter 4: Linda Le: A Literature of Displacement

Gloria Kwok

Chapter 5:

Languages at war in Latin American women writers

Liliana Guadalupe Chavez Diaz

Chapter 6: They Won't Take Me Alive: Feminist Histories and Literary Journalism in El Salvador

Jeffrey Peer

Part 2: Indigeneity

Chapter 7: Dreams in a Time of Dystopic Neocolonialism: Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God and Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves

Megan E. Cannella

Chapter 8: Indigenous Libretto and Aural Memory: Forms of Translation in The Sun Dance and El Circo Anahuac

Clarissa Castaneda

Chapter 9: Not Lost: 'We are people of the land. We are clay people, people of the mounds'

Margaret McMurtrey

Chapter 10: Writing Memory, Practising Resistance: History and Memory in Easterine Kire's Novels

Payel Ghosh

Chapter 11: Women's Bodies in Indigenous Literatures: A Comparative Analysis from Contemporary Novels of Three Continents

Kate Rose

Part 3: Trauma

Chapter 12: Magical Combat in Central Africa: Kim Nguyen's War Witch

Joya Uraizee

Chapter 13: From Bearing to Burying: Enacting Embodied Memories of Darfur Genocide in the Poetry of Emtithal Mahmoud

Mayy ElHayawi

Chapter 14: Masculine Failure: Rape Culture and Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Hakyoung Ahn

Chapter 15: The Technology of Anguish: (Re)Imagining Post-9/11 Trauma in Tamora Pierce's Fantasy Universes

Whitney S. May

Chapter 16: Women with Swords: Reinvention of Female Warriors in Contemporary Chinese Women's Writings

Xue Wei