Contents Introduction: 'Non-Realism: The Once and Future Reality' Or 'Twice Abused Bodies and the Question of Agency' The Mystery of Violence 'To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable': The Metaphorical, the Material and the Violenced Body' The Poison in the Womb: Dis/placing the Violenced Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved Narrating Collectivity from Violence: The Case of Slavery and World War I in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Sula The Voice and the Book:...