In:Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence
Shonna L. Trinch
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 17] 2003
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 24 November 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.17.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.17.toc
Table of contents
List of figures and tablesvii
Acknowledgmentsix
1. Narrating violence in institutional settings
2. Telling the truth about violence: Language ideology and the function of narrative structure
3. Representation, ownership and genre: Language ideologies of narrative production and performance
4. Telling and re-telling: Latina narrators interacting with institutions
5. The protective order interview: A linguistic tug-of-war for representation
6. Disappearing acts: Power, control, opposition and omission
7. Disfigurement and discrepancy: Taking the story out of the report
8. Transforming domestic violence into narrative syntax
9. Beyond the storytelling taboo: Latinas’ narratives and sexual violence
10. Discrepant versions and the margins: Truth or consequence for Latina battered women?
References
Appendix. Glossary of legal terms
Author index
Subject index
