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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.

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Description viii, 223 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American fiction -- History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Dead in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781421407524 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
1421407523 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
9781421407999 (electronic bk.)
142140799X (electronic bk.)
9781421407999 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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