The Silence of the Girls is one of my favourite books ever, not just my favourite Iliad retelling or my favourite retelling! And that specific quote — which was like a punch to the heart the first time I read it — is a good summary of why. It is the Briseis-centric Iliad retelling that I'd been searching for all my life, as I said in my review. (There's been a sequel published — The Women of Troy — which is good as well, but doesn't quite reach the excellence of the first book.)

I've not read the Chinese original, nor The Water Outlaws, but it sounds impressive.

I've seen the TV adaptation of Lovecraft Country, which has some really powerful moments (the first episode has exactly the quality that you describe in the book), but it's let down by some questionable writing choices which I'm not sure are in the source material, or are inventions of the TV scriptwriters. The books sound like an extremely powerful reclamation.