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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462239803321

Autore

Norman Brian <1977->

Titolo

Dead women talking [[electronic resource] ] : figures of injustice in American literature / / Brian Norman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-4214-0799-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

813.009/9287

Soggetti

American fiction - History and criticism

Women in literature

Dead in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher" -- Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw -- Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying -- Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens -- Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead -- Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God -- Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones -- Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body -- When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman".