Dead women talking : encounters with the past in American literature /
Norman, Brian, 1977-
Dead women talking : encounters with the past in American literature / Brian Norman. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource
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."
9781421407999 (electronic bk.) 142140799X (electronic bk.) (hdbk. ; acid-free paper) (hdbk. ; acid-free paper)
Dead in literature.
Women in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Morts dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American fiction.
Dead in literature.
Women in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS374.W6 / N67 2013
813.009/9287
Dead women talking : encounters with the past in American literature / Brian Norman. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource
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."
9781421407999 (electronic bk.) 142140799X (electronic bk.) (hdbk. ; acid-free paper) (hdbk. ; acid-free paper)
Dead in literature.
Women in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Morts dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Roman américain--Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American fiction.
Dead in literature.
Women in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS374.W6 / N67 2013
813.009/9287