Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South: Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity

by Claire Raymond

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Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dickinson's poetry is read through its relationship to the Southern Agrarian critics who championed her...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1032926333

ISBN13:9781032926339

Release Date:October 2024

Publisher:Routledge

Length:230 Pages

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