Chapter 1 The Dilemmas and Struggles of Female Intel-lectuals and Artists：Reading Anita Brookner's Falling Slowly（Britain） 1
Chapter 2 On the Exploration of an Authentic Female Self through Transgressive Sexuality and Its Limits：Reading Claire Keegan's“Antarctica”（Ireland） 14
Chapter 3 Making Connections among Unconnectable Fellow Women：Reading Nora Nadjarian's“Exhibi-tion”（Cyprus） 23
Chapter 4 In Defiance of the Confining Law of the Is-lamic Father：Reading Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul（Turkey） 28
Chapter 5 Seeking for a Home of One's Own：Reading Marilynn Robinson's Housekeeping（United States） 35
Chapter 6 In Search of the Traumatic Past for Resha-ping the Present Female Identity：Reading Alice Mun-ro's“Differently”（Canada） 44
Chapter 7 Electra Complex and Its Discontent：Read-ing Sharon Leach's“All the Secret Things No One Ev-er Knows”（Jamaica） 55
Chapter 8 Ambivalence and Contradictions within Car-ibbean Motherhood：Reading Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John（United States/Antigua＆Barbuda） 63
Chapter 9 Towards a Radical Feminism through the Grotesque Female Body as the Symbolic Site of Power：Reading Kate Grenville's Lilian's Story（Australia） 71
Chapter 10 The Power of Voyeurism and Its Limits：Reading Janet Frame's“The Linesman”（New Zeal-and） 79
Chapter 11 From“We”to“I”：A Samoan Girl's Self-awakening in Sia Figiel's Where We Once Belonged（Samoa） 82
Chapter 12 Female Resilience and Subtle Defiance against Ideological Policing：Reading Yiyun Li's“Sou-venir”（United States/China） 90
Chapter 13 Beyond the Shadows of the Abuse as a Family Ritual：Reading Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors（India） 99
Chapter 14 Subverting the Stereotyped Plot：Reading Bapsi Sidhwa's The Pakistani Bride（Pakistan） 105
Chapter 15 Materialism and Its Psychological Burden：Reading Catherine Lim's“The Marriage”（Singapore） 110
Chapter 16 Unexpected Female Affinities and Recon-ciliations in a Riot in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's“A Private Experience”（Nigeria） 116
Chapter 17 Interrogating the“Either/or”Ideology on the Traumatic Body in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name（Zimbabwe） 120
Chapter 18 Different Cast，Same Script：Reading Ama Ata Aidoo's“Two Sisters”（Ghana） 124
Chapter 19 The Plight of Three Generations of Women in a Harsh World：Reading Lauri Kubuitsile's“The Rich People's School”（Botswana） 129
Works Cited 134
Afterword 137