Dead women talking
Subtitle: encounters with the past in American literature
By: Brian Norman
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781421407524; 9781421407999
Subjects: American fiction; History and criticism; Dead in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher"; title: Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw; title: Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying; title: Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens; title: Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved; title: Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America; title: Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead; title: Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God; title: Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones; title: Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body; title: When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman".