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001 2012012926
003 DLC
005 20141118082946.0
008 120403s2013 mdu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012012926
020 $a9781421407524 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
020 $a9781421407999 (electronic)
020 $a1421407523 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
020 $a142140799X (electronic)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS374.W6$bN67 2013
082 00 $a813.009/9287$223
100 1 $aNorman, Brian,$d1977-
245 10 $aDead women talking :$bfigures of injustice in American literature /$cBrian Norman.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2013.
300 $aviii, 223 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-215) and index.
505 0 $aDead 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".
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aDead in literature.