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Author:
Raymond, Claire, 1967- author.
Title:
Witnessing sadism in texts of the American South : women, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity / Claire Raymond, University of Virginia, USA.
Publisher:
Ashgate,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women photographers--United States--History.
Photography--United States--History.
Sadism in literature.
Sadism in art.
Violence in literature.
Violence in art.
Women--Identity.
Racism--Southern States.
Southern States--In literature.
Southern States--In art.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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.
ISBN:
1409451054 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409451051 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)861554569
LCCN:
2013033643
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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