• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Memory, Text, Body
• Opening Heads and Reaching Shores
• Reading Ghostly Desire in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power and Deborah Jack’s SHORE
• Between a Push and a Fall
• The Politics of Re-Memory in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora
• Hungry Women
• Economies of Injury in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
• The Wounding of Displacement
• Looking for Home in Maryse Condé’s Hérémakhonon
• Coda
• The Haunting Distance Between Two Places—South Africa and South Carolina
• Index
