<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p>

Rape by proxy in contemporary Caribbean women's fiction / Carine M. Mardorossian -- Sabotaging the language of pride: Toni Morrison's representations of rape / Tessa Roynon -- Revising Chicana womanhood: gender violence in Sandra Cisneros's The house on Mango Street / Robin E. Field -- Resistance metaphors: between Awra and Arab feminism: sexual violence and representational crisis in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero / Anna Ball -- Writing rape: the politics of resistance in Yvonne Vera's novels / Fiona McCann -- Il/legitimacy: sexual violence, mental health, and resisting abjection in Camilla Gibb's mouthing the words and Elizabeth Ruth's Ten good seconds of silence / Susan Billingham -- The protest of silence: Testimony and silence: sexual violence and the holocaust / Zoe Waxman -- Mum is the word: gender violence, displacement and the refugee camp in Yasmin Ladha's documentary-fiction / Belin Martin-Lucas -- Double violation? (not) talking about sexual violence in contemporary South Asia / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Questioning truth and reconciliation: writing rape in Achmat Dangor's Bitter fruit and Kagiso Lesego Molope's Dancing in the dust / Sorcha Gunne -- The question of the visual: Signifying rape: problems of representing sexual violence on stage / Lisa Fitzpatrick -- The wound and the mask: rape, recovery and poetry in Pascale Petit's the wounded deer: fourteen poems after Frida Kahlo / Zoe Brigley Thompson -- Rape, power, realism and the fantastic on television / Lorna Jowett.