Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: 'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable'

A study of distinct forms of mass violence, the narrativeseach kind demands, andthe collective identities constructed from and upon these, this bookfocuses around readingsofpopular andinfluential novels such as Toni Morrison's Beloved , Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits .