TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Multiethnic Fragmentation and Women's Community -- The Fragmented Body and Maternal Healing: The Examples of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee -- Reliving African Matrilineage: Re-Membering the Past in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Childhood Scars and Women's Love In Emma Perez's Gulf Dreams and Paul Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows -- The Case of the Missing Women: Chaos and the Absence of Female Bonds in Kathy Acker's Works -- Conclusion - Resistance and Feminist Healing.