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Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women´s Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality.

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Introduction: What´s (Still) Wrong with Images of Women? PART I. COMING-OF-AGE WITH MASS MEDIA 1. (Re)visualizing History in Toni Morrison´s The Bluest Eye 2. Transforming Culture and Consciousness in Bobbie Ann Mason´s In Country PART II. WITNESSING VISUAL MANIPULATION 3. ´There Were Signs and I Missed Them´: Reading Beneath the Image in Margaret Atwood´s Speculative Fiction 4. The Politics of Vanishing: Bearing Witness to the Wounded Family in Louise Erdrich´s Shadow Tag PART III. SPECTATORSHIP IN AN EXPANDED FIELD OF VISION 5. Against Visual Objectivity in Gish Jen´s "Birthmates" and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni´s "The Ultrasound" 6. Queering Spectatorship in Alison Bechdel´s Fun Home Conclusion: Confronting Visuality in the Digital Age ?

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"In her compelling monograph Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women´s Writing, Angela Laflen offers an insightful perspective on a diverse selection of acclaimed contemporary women writers ... . Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women´s Writing is a stimulating and worthwhile contribution to the evolving field of feminist scholarship on the visual in literary texts." (Roger Knight, TSWL Tulsa Studies in Women´s Literature, 2015)

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Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at Marist College, USA.

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