Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
PART 1: Why we need stories and the stability of the subject
	1. Quilted quotations and the pleasure of the text
	2. Reflective reading: Beyond reader-response to the unconscious of reading
		Disruptive epiphanies: why we need stories
		Beyond reader-response
		Reflective reading: a radical approach
	3. Out classed: The family romance as fantasy of upward mobility
		Why can’t we talk about class?
		Family romance as class consciousness
		Out classing the father
		Ideology and the unconscious
		Class panic
	4. To write a different story: Reflective reading as a pedagogical practice of restorative justice for racial oppression
		White privilege
		Reflective reading and the pedagogy of the repressed
		Restorative justice in Benin’s public classroom
PART 2: History as méconnaissance
	5. Modernist biography and méconnaissance: The Bloomsbury Group’s Oedipal resolution
		The English biographical tradition
		Bloomsbury’s public and private spaces: Modernist biography as personal and political
		Appendix: Biographical writing by members of the Bloomsbury Group (first and second generation)
	6. The quilting point: Vita Sackville-West’s secular Joan of Arc
		Biographical research: a Sissinghurst journal
		Cross-dressing for (imaginary) battle: Vita Sackville-West’s fantasy of Joan of Arc
PART 3: Narrative instability
	7. Reflective reading, faith, and transformation in Susan Howatch’s Church of England novels
		Transference of faith
		Working-through to forgiveness: learning to read yourself
		Reading aloud to God
		Exorcising trauma
	8. Walking contradiction: Johnny Cash and the instability of the subject
		Reflective reading and the return of the Man in Black
		Interventions: destabilizing the icon
		Transformations: the middle of nowhere
	9. Depicting the undepictable: The reflective analysis of Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?
		Girls are horny too: why would this be confusing?
		Dykes to Watch Out For: the self-conscious cartoonist
		Quilting points: Bechdel and Woolf reproduce mothering
		Are You My Mother? as self-analysis
		Mise en abyme
		Outlaw narrators: representing women’s desire
Afterword: A twisted wrench and a sunbonnet quilt
Index