Map of Hope: Women's Writing on Human Rights Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1	War and Remembrance
	Wind and Widow	3
	The Son of Man	4
	The War	7
	A Life	13
	An Estate of Memory	16
	A War Letter	27
	My War in Four Episodes	28
	Conversation with a Stone	36
	Liberation Day	39
	War and Memory	47
	Baghdad Diary	56
	Object Permanence	64
	Blind Chinese Soldiers	65
	Deadline	70
2	Imprisonment and Censorship
	Dedication	75
	Prologue	76
	Freedom from Fear	80
	The Border Patrol State	85
	Auschwitz	91
	The Legend of Miss Sasagawara	93
	The Censors	107
	A Window on Soweto	110
	North American Time	116
	Piercing the Blockade	120
	The Prisoner	124
	Gemutlich	126
	Block 4 Barrack 4 "Apt" C	128
	Threads Drawn from the Heart	129
3	Childhood
	A Dead Child Speaks	139
	Indian Mother	140
	On the Road at Night There Stands a Man	142
	My City: A Hong Kong Story	143
	My Father Would Recall	147
	Child's Memory	148
	The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts	150
	The Break	158
	I Won't Christen You	163
	My Father and My Mother Went Out to Hunt	169
	All But My Life	170
	The Child of the Enemy	176
	A Little Arab Girl's First Day at School	178
	Dotty Noona	180
	Diaspora	186
4	Exiles and Refugees
	Song	191
	The Aftermath	192
	Exile	202
	Packing My Bags	209
	Beauty Contest	212
	A Woman in Exile	213
	Mother Tongue	220
	Bosnia, or What Europe Means to Us	223
	The Moon, the Wind, the Year, the Day	230
	Border Country	235
	Exile	239
5	Domestic and Political Violence
	War Pictures	243
	Against the Pleasure Principle	244
	Nada	250
	My Harem Frontiers	259
	Musee des Faux Arts	261
	Female Goods	264
	Child of the Dark	265
	Language and Shame	274
	As a Blackwoman	277
	The Colonel	279
	Six Days: Some Rememberings	280
	The Ritual of Sati	286
6	Resistance and Refusal
	City of Fire	289
	That Other World That Was the World	290
	Diary	299
	Arriving at the Plaza	304
	The Trikeri Journal	307
	The Dance in Jinotega	311
	Encounter	314
	E. F. Schumacher Memorial Lecture	316
	The Hour of Truth	320
	The Reciters	335
	Justice	347
	The Writer's Commitment	348
	world view	352
	Notes on Contributors	353
	Copyrights and Permissions	363