LEADER 02890nam 2200505 450 001 9910151611903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-252-09889-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000951721 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001646555 035 $a(OCoLC)948670054 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4792728 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4792728 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11333939 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000951721 100 $a20170210h20162016 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSplattered ink $epostfeminist gothic fiction and gendered violence /$fSarah E Whitney 210 1$aUrabana, Chicago, Springfield, [Illinois] :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-252-08192-7 311 $a0-252-04046-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Postfeminist cultural studies has largely been focused on film, television, and other forms of mass media, with the occasional foray into the the lighthearted romantic comedy fiction known as "chick lit." In this project, the author seeks to trace a darker literary thread in contemporary U.S. women's fiction: that which exemplifies the postfeminist gothic, a genre which harnesses gothic themes and motifs to tell stories of gendered violence and pain. Whitney suggests that the novels of the popular authors in this study - Alice Sebold, Susanna Moore, Sapphire, Patricia Cornwell and Jodi Picoult - intrude violently upon the well-constructed postfeminist fantasy of a safe and equitable world at the same time that they reject victimhood as an organizing identity. The author argues that a variety of narrative strategies that jar readers, refuse to provide happy endings, and question the inevitability of crime against women in a supposedly "equitable" world provide new ways of continuing to talk about sexual and domestic violence. Whitney's attention to the literary expression of this powerful cultural motif helps to illuminate the workings of gendered violence in the contemporary U.S. cultural imagination"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGothic fiction (Literary genre), American$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGothic fiction (Literary genre), American$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.0099287 700 $aWhitney$b Sarah E.$f1976-$0866195 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151611903321 996 $aSplattered ink$91933252 997 $aUNINA