Lisa K Perdigao

From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation

Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Perdigao considers works by writers from William Faulkner and Richard Wright to Toni Morrison and Jeffrey Eugenides, arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation, complementary drives that speak to the tension between the desire to bury the dead and the need to remember.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780754667179
• ISBN-10: 0754667170
• Artikelnr.: 44788445

Autorenporträt

Lisa K. Perdigao is Associate Professor of English at the Florida Institute of Technology. She is co-editor, with Mark Pizzato, of Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead (Ashgate 2010), has published articles in book collections on Adrienne Rich's poetry, Toni Morrison's fiction and prose, Caribbean women's writing, and children's and adolescent literature, and has an article forthcoming in the MLA collection on teaching William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 "It was better to get her underground"
Chapter 2 "I advise you not to dig into it"
Chapter 3 "To pierce and shred those unblemished bodies"
Chapter 4 "Someone was hanging there"
Chapter 5 "Bone by bone"
Chapter 101 Conclusion