The bleeding of America : menstruation as symbolic economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison / Dana Medoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Medoro, Dana, 1967-

Series:

Contributions in women's studies 0147-104X ; no. 195.

Contributions in women's studies, 0147-104X ; no. 195

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

Pynchon, Thomas.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Menstruation in literature.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Characters--Women.

Faulkner, William.

Pynchon, Thomas--Characters--Women.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Characters--Women.

Morrison, Toni.

Regeneration in literature.

Symbolism in literature.

Violence in literature.

Blood in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 184 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Summary:

Menstruation as a narrative antidote to America's bloody history is revealed in the works of three major authors.

Contents:

1. Thomas Pynchon: Blood, Tears, and War 15

Traces of Blood and the Matter of a Paraclete's Coming: The Menstrual Economy of Pynchon's V 15

Menstruation and Melancholy: The Crying of Lot 49 29

The Sieve and the Rainbow Serpent: Bleeding Gravity's Rainbow 45

2. William Faulkner: There's a Curse on Us 71

"Between Two Moons Balanced": Menstruation and Narrative in The Sound and the Fury 71

Light in August: "The Phantom of the Old Spilled Blood" 89

"All the unsistered Eves since the Snake": Absalom, Absalom! and the Promise of Prehistory 103

3. Toni Morrison: Daughters of Jerusalem 125

Pecola's Pharmacy: The Bluest Eye 125

The Gravel-Sprinkled and Flowering Voice of Song of Solomon 141

Getting to Red: Beloved's Bloody Cosmology 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-179) and index.

ISBN:

0313320594

OCLC:

48474089