Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South
Subtitle: Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781409451051
Subjects: American literature, history and criticism; American literature, women authors; Women photographers; Photography, history; Violence in literature; Women, legal status, laws, etc.; Racism; Southern states, in literature
Description: "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"--