Acknowledgments Introduction: Engendering the Subject
Feminist Theory and Identity Politics
"Women's Writing" and Self-Representation
Toward a Contestatory Practice of Narrative
1. Repetition and Resistance in Doris Lessing's Children of Violence
The Female Oedipus: Gender and the (De) Structuring of Martha's Quest
A Theory for Martha: Gender and the Production of Subjectivity
Gendered Address and Martha's Self-Representation
2. Angela Carter and the Circus of Theory: Writing Woman and Women's Writing
Derrida: The Affirmative Woman and the Feminist
Irigaray: Mimicry, Contradiction and the Subject of Feminism
The Anti-hero as Oedipus: Gender and the Postmodern Narrative
Difference as Spectacle: Deconstructing Mythologies of Gender
3. "We're all consequences of something" Cultural Mythologies of Gender and Race in the Novels of Gayl Jones
Black Female Essence: Slavery and the Cultural Production of the Black Woman
Corregidora: Black Female Subjectivity and the Politics of Heterosexuality
Eva's Man: Excess as Subversion
Epilogue On Representation and Self-Representation
Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index