From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation
Subtitle: dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction
By: by Lisa K. Perdigao.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754667179
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Human body in literature; Dead in literature; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
Notes: "Introduction: encrypting the body -- "It was better to get her underground": the modernist burial plot -- "I advise you not to dig into it": metaphor, metonymy, and the modern novel -- "To pierce and shred those unblemished bodies": corpses, theory, and the postmodern novel -- "Someone was hanging there": the postmodern Book of the dead -- "Bone by bone": Alice Walker's exhumation of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- Conclusion: in theory."

Includes bibliographical references and index.