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02915aam a2200445 i 4500 001 7819AB4263F011E4A4D39B8FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141104010110 008 131021s2014 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013033643 020 $a 1409451054 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781409451051 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)861554569 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d CDX $d DEBBG $d PUL $d STF $d CHVBK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a PS261 $b .R37 2014 100 1 $a Raymond, Claire, $d 1967- $e author. 245 10 $a Witnessing sadism in texts of the American South : $b women, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity / $c Claire Raymond, University of Virginia, USA. 246 30 $a Women, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity 264 1 $a Farnham, Surrey, England ; $b Ashgate, $c [2014] 300 $a 222 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction, sadism and specularity -- Empathy and risk: photography, writing, the softest voice -- Projects of identity in Carrie Mae Weems's From here I saw what happened and I cried the crucible of witnessing -- Sacrificed daughters and the grammar of enslavement in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Flannery O'Connor's "A view of the woods," and Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- The adequate of hell," or, how to watch the other suffer -- Queer southern belles: the transgender object of desire in O'Connor, McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- Sadism and the open body: being in relation to the suffering other -- By way of a conclusion: what I have done in your name -- Appendices. 520 $a "McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography. Raymond explores the idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of the feminine character as witness to sadistic acts is a phenomenon distinctly of the American South that is linked to the culture's history of racism"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American literature $z Southern States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women photographers $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Photography $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Sadism in literature. 650 0 $a Sadism in art. 650 0 $a Violence in literature. 650 0 $a Violence in art. 650 0 $a Women $x Identity. 650 0 $a Racism $z Southern States. 651 0 $a Southern States $x In literature. 651 0 $a Southern States $x In art. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171223031423.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7819AB4263F011E4A4D39B8FDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search