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Witnessing sadism in texts of the American South : women, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity / Claire Raymond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raymond, Claire, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Racism.
- Women photographers.
- History.
- American literature--Women authors.
- Southern States.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Women photographers--United States--History.
- Photography--United States--History.
- Photography.
- United States.
- Sadism in literature.
- Sadism in art.
- Violence in literature.
- Violence in art.
- Women--Identity.
- Women.
- Racism--Southern States.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Southern States--In art.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Women, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing, [2014]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409451051
- 1409451054
- OCLC:
- 861554569
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