Table of Contents: The spaces of violence

Main Author:	Giles, James Richard, 1937-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. > 20th century Violence in literature. Space (Architecture) in literature. Space and time in literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10309839

Table of Contents:

Violence and space
Discovering fourthspace in Appalachia : Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and Child of God
Russell Banks's Affliction : "all those solitary dumb angry men"
Of vultures, eyeballs, and parrots : Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle
The myth of the Boatright Men : Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina
Playing for death : Don Delillo's End Zone
Drifting through Urantia : greyhound space in Denis Johnson's Angels
The return of John Smith : Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer
"The Battle of Bob Hope" and "The Great Elephant Zap" : Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers
"I hope you didn't go into raw space without me": Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Violence and family structures.