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Dead women talking figures of injustice in American literature

Title
Dead women talking [electronic resource] : figures of injustice in American literature / Brian Norman.
Author
Norman, Brian, 1977-
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

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Description
1 online resource (viii, 223 p.)
Uniform Title
Dead women talking (Online)
Alternative Title
Dead women talking (Online)
Subject
  • American fiction > History and criticism
  • Women in literature
  • Dead in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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".
LCCN
2012012926
OCLC
ssj0000755440
Author
Norman, Brian, 1977-
Title
Dead women talking [electronic resource] : figures of injustice in American literature / Brian Norman.
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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