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Author:
Norman, Brian, 1977-
Title:
Dead women talking : figures of injustice in American literature / Brian Norman.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
viii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American fiction--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Dead in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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".
ISBN:
142140799X (electronic)
9781421407999 (electronic)
1421407523 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
9781421407524 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)783862045
LCCN:
2012012926
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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