Dead women talking : figures of injustice in American literature / Brian Norman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norman, Brian, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Women in literature.

Dead in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death.

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".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4214-0799-X

OCLC:

821216782