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008 120403s2013 mdu b 001 0 eng
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020 _a9781421407524 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
020 _a9781421407952 (electronic)
020 _a1421407523 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
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043 _an-us---
050 0 0 _aPS 374.W6
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100 1 _aNorman, Brian,
_d1977-
245 1 0 _aDead women talking :
_bfigures of injustice in American literature /
_cBrian Norman.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2013.
300 _aviii, 223 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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".
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aWomen in literature.
650 0 _aDead in literature.
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