June (English literature and criticism, Paine College, Atlanta, Georgia) explores how fragmentation has defined women’s position in the US, and how recent, multi-ethnic American women authors
have embraced a disjointed postmodern writing style both to reflect and to resist their historical state of fragmentation. She discusses maternal healing in Morrison’s Beloved and Cha’s Dictée,
reliving African matrilineage in Perry’s Stigmata and Jones’ Corregidora, childhood scars and women’s love in Pérez’s Gulf of Dreams and Allen’s The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, and chaos and
the absence of female bonds in Acker’s works. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
