Dead women talking : figures of injustice in American literature /
Norman, Brian, 1977-
Dead women talking : figures of injustice in American literature / Brian Norman. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - viii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
Introduction: Recognizing the dead -- 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".
9781421407524 (hdbk. : acid-free paper) 9781421407952 (electronic) 1421407523 (hdbk. : acid-free paper) 142140799X (electronic)
2012012926
American fiction--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Dead in literature.
PS 374.W6 / N67 2013
Dead women talking : figures of injustice in American literature / Brian Norman. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - viii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
Introduction: Recognizing the dead -- 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".
9781421407524 (hdbk. : acid-free paper) 9781421407952 (electronic) 1421407523 (hdbk. : acid-free paper) 142140799X (electronic)
2012012926
American fiction--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Dead in literature.
PS 374.W6 / N67 2013