Shattered:
Vol. 6, No. 1, 2017

Contents

Letter from the Editors … 1

“Shattered Ethics:
Abandoned Objects as Ethical Affordance” … 5
Adam Lovasz

“Shattered Encounters:
From My Father’s House (1947) to My Father’s House (2008)” … 29
Liat Steir-Livny

“Utopian and Dystopian Homecomings in Olley Maruma’s Coming Home and
Shimmer Chinodya’s Harvest of Thorns” … 52
Tanaka Chidora and Sheunesu Mandizvidza

“Picking Up the Pieces:
Embodied Theory in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power” … 75
Elinor Rooks

“Shattered Masculinity and Violence in Walker Percy’s Lancelot:
Apocalypse Now” … 98
Rachel Van Hofwegen Willis

“Zahra:
A Shattered Body and Voice from Lebanon” … 120
Mireille Rebeiz

“The Bondage and Subsequent Agency of Violet in Toni Morrison’s Jazz” … 141
Melanie A. Marotta

“In Search of the “Telling Detail”:
Ian McEwan, Briony Tallis, and the Demands of Authorship” … 166
Matthew Duffus

“Shattering Silence and Stereotypes:
Rihanna’s Lyrical Reaction to Spectacular Violence” … 182
Melinda Anne Mills

“Betwixt and Between:
How Male and Female Audiences Engaged with the “Magnetic Girl” to Complicate
Fin-de-Siècle Gender Roles” … 204
Elizabeth Lowry

“Art in the Streets of a Shattered City” … 220
Anne Kristiina Kurjenoja and Emilia Ismael