Norman, Brian, 1977-

Dead women talking figures of injustice in American literature / [electronic resource] : Brian Norman. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - viii, 223 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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".


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781421407999 (electronic bk.) 142140799X (electronic bk.) 9781421407999 (electronic bk.)




American fiction--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Dead in literature.


Electronic books.

PS374.W6 / N67 2013

813.009/9287