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OverviewBrian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner as well as in more recent works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and others. These figures are also emerging in contemporary culture, from the film and best-selling novel The Lovely Bones to the hit television drama Desperate Housewives. Dead Women Talking demonstrates that the dead, especially women, have been speaking out in American literature since well before it was fashionable. Norman argues that they voice concerns that a community may wish to consign to the past, raising questions about gender, violence, sexuality, class, racial injustice, and national identity. When these women insert themselves into the story, they do not enter precisely as ghosts but rather as something potentially more disrupting: posthumous citizens. The community must ask itself whether it can or should recognize such a character as one of its own. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brian Norman (Dean, Simmons College)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781421415727ISBN 10: 1421415720 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 12 January 2015 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: Recognizing the Dead 1. Dead Woman Wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's ""The Fall of the House of Usher"" 2. Dead Woman Dictating: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw 3. Dead Woman Rotting: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying 4. Dead Woman Cursing: Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens 5. Dead Woman Wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved 6. Dead Woman Heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America 7. Dead Women Gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the Dead Bury Their Dead 8. Dead Women Healing: Ana Castillo's So Far from God 9. Dead Woman Coming of Age: Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones 10. Dead Woman Singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting Mother's Body 11. When Dead Women Don't Talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's ""No Name Woman"" Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsInsightful and powerfully affecting, Dead Women Talking deepens our understanding of how the dead remain a vital presence and social force in American life and literature. -- Kristin Hutchins Women's Studies Norman examines an original, intriguing phenomenon in American literature-stories with deceased female characters... The study is well researched and offers an array of critical approaches. This important contribution to the study of American fiction should endure for some time. Choice Dead women have been speaking out in literature for a long time. What Norman does with this book is to bring our attention to them as a group so that we might bring the concerns of these women to the forefront of our discussions. -- Dana Benge Rocky Mountain Review Insightful and powerfully affecting, Dead Women Talking deepens our understanding of how the dead remain a vital presence and social force in American life and literature. -- Kristin Hutchins * Women's Studies * Norman examines an original, intriguing phenomenon in American literature-stories with deceased female characters... The study is well researched and offers an array of critical approaches. This important contribution to the study of American fiction should endure for some time. * Choice * Dead women have been speaking out in literature for a long time. What Norman does with this book is to bring our attention to them as a group so that we might bring the concerns of these women to the forefront of our discussions. -- Dana Benge * Rocky Mountain Review * Author InformationAuthor Website: http://evergreen.loyola.edu/bjnorman/www/Brian Norman is an associate professor of English and director of African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland. He is author of Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature and The American Protest Essay and National Belonging. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://evergreen.loyola.edu/bjnorman/www/Countries AvailableAll regions |
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