This article explores contemporary plays by African American women
and addresses their readings of physical and linguistic abuse in the
discourse of racial and cultural diversity. The focal plays are Robbie
McCauley‖s Sally‖s Rape (1989) and Judith Alexa Jackson‖s
WOMBmanWARs (1992).
This article explores the possibility of establishing a unique feminine aesthetics
within the larger domain of female body politics in the French writer Anaїs Nin's
controversial work, House Of Incest (1936). The article questions the apparent subm
erging
of the female body in the literary representations of the canon. This research also attempts
to study how Nin's formulation of the "womb writing" extends and, actually, precedes the
tradition of l'ecriture feminine by way of analyzing the female body's engagement with
and commitment to a continuous existence through the body's most basic organic function;
i.e. (re)productivity.
