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050 00 $aPS261$b.R37 2014
082 00 $a810.9/975$223
100 1 $aRaymond, Claire,$d1967-,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWitnessing sadism in texts of the American South :$bwomen, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity /$cClaire Raymond.
246 30 $aWomen, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity
264 1 $aSurrey, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate Publishing,$c[2014]
300 $a222 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction, sadism and specularity -- Empathy and risk: photography, writing, the softest voice -- Projects of identity in Carrie Mae Weems's From here I saw what happened and I cried the crucible of witnessing -- Sacrificed daughters and the grammar of enslavement in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Flannery O'Connor's "A view of the woods," and Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina -- The adequate of hell," or, how to watch the other suffer -- Queer southern belles: the transgender object of desire in O'Connor, McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and men -- Sadism and the open body: being in relation to the suffering other -- By way of a conclusion: what I have done in your name -- Appendices.
520 $a"McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography. Raymond explores the idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of the feminine character as witness to sadistic acts is a phenomenon distinctly of the American South that is linked to the culture's history of racism"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen photographers$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aPhotography$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSadism in literature.
650 0 $aSadism in art.
650 0 $aViolence in literature.
650 0 $aViolence in art.
650 0 $aWomen$xIdentity.
650 0 $aRacism$zSouthern States.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xIn literature.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xIn art.
852 00 $bglx$hPS261$i.R37 2014
852 00 $bbar$hPS261$i.R37 2014