Title: Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South
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"--
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, American literature, History and criticism, Women authors, History, Photography, Sadism in literature, Sadism in art, Violence in art, Women, Identity, In literature, In art, Écrits de femmes américains, Histoire et critique, Femmes photographes, Histoire, Sadisme dans la littérature, Sadisme dans l'art, Violence dans la littérature, Violence dans l'art, Femmes, Identité, Racisme, Dans la littérature, Dans l'art, LITERARY CRITICISM, Gothic & Romance, Semiotics & Theory, Literature