This essay advances a close critical reading of Walker’s controversial novel, _Possessing the Secret of Joy_. The analysis of scholarly approaches to Walker’s fiction is informed by theoretical works on violence and subjectivity. REPRINT. The essay was originally published in: Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Eds. M. Diedrich, H. L. Gates, Jr., and C. Pedersen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 228-239.

"Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic: On Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy."

FABI, Maria Giulia
2014

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This essay advances a close critical reading of Walker’s controversial novel, _Possessing the Secret of Joy_. The analysis of scholarly approaches to Walker’s fiction is informed by theoretical works on violence and subjectivity. REPRINT. The essay was originally published in: Black Imagination and the Middle Passage. Eds. M. Diedrich, H. L. Gates, Jr., and C. Pedersen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 228-239.
2014
9783981386332
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