Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Bearing Witness
2. Reading the Unconscious in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead
3. Freud and Feminism in Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina
4. Hysteria and Trauma in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self
5. Postmodern Realism,Truth and Lies in Joyce Carol Oates's What I Lived For
6. Intertextuality and Poststructural Realism in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
7. Conclusion: Words Finally Spoken
Notes
Works Cited
Index