Letter from the Issue Editors

5-7

Beautiful Scars: Jewels in English Renaissance Drama

9-26

Suturing a Wounded Body—Wounded Mind in Red Silk on White Linen: Embodied and Hand(Y) Knowledge of Trauma

27-46

Regarding Wounded Bodies on the Killing Fields of the Cinema,

or Can Violent Spectacles in American Popular Fiction & Film Possibly Be Justified?

47-52

Neatly Severing The Body From The Head:” Female Abjection In Margaret Atwood’S The Edible Woman

53-64

Meddling with the Muddling Rushdie Affair

65-76

Memories from the Margins: Stories and Images of Urban Homelessness

77-91

Indigenous Elderly in the United States: Wounded Bodies, Vivid Minds

93-102

Racial Violence in William Faulkner’s Dry September and Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird