The Spaces of Violence

Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels In The Spaces of Violence , James R. Giles examines ten contemporary American novels for the unique ways in which they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction , Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God , Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle , Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina , Don DeLillo’s End Zone , Denis Johnson’s Angels , Sherman Alexie’s Indian