03059nam 2200649 a 450 991080788970332120200520144314.00-8173-8281-X(CKB)1000000000774947(EBL)454549(OCoLC)426057017(SSID)ssj0000251901(PQKBManifestationID)11939260(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000251901(PQKBWorkID)10176078(PQKB)11016532(MdBmJHUP)muse9257(Au-PeEL)EBL454549(CaPaEBR)ebr10309844(MiAaPQ)EBC454549(EXLCZ)99100000000077494720020810d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStrange bodies[electronic resource] gender and identity in the novels of Carson McCullers /Sarah Gleeson-WhiteTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20031 online resource (177 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1267-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-156) and index.Freakish adolescents : The heart is a lonely hunter and The member of the wedding -- Queer grotesques : The heart is a lonely hunter and Reflections in a golden eye -- The masquerade : The heart is a lonely hunter, The member of the wedding, and The ballad of the sad café -- Two bodies in one : The heart is a lonely hunter and The ballad of the sad café. Adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque, as well as the latest in gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of acclaimed southern writer Carson McCullers. This innovative reconsideration of the themes of Carson McCullers's fiction argues that her work has heretofore suffered under the pall of narrow gothic interpretations, obscuring a more subversive agenda. By examining McCullers's major novels-The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Café-Gleeson-White locates a rWomen and literatureSouthern StatesHistory20th centuryPsychological fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismIdentity (Psychology) in literatureGender identity in literatureHuman body in literatureGrotesque in literatureSouthern StatesIn literatureWomen and literatureHistoryPsychological fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Gender identity in literature.Human body in literature.Grotesque in literature.813/.52Gleeson-White Sarah1965-1658623MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807889703321Strange bodies4012760UNINA