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

Author/creator Norman, Brian, 1977-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionviii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
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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".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012012926
ISBN9781421407524 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9781421407999 (electronic)
ISBN1421407523 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN142140799X (electronic)

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