Witnessing Sadism In Texts Of The American South: Women, Specularity, And The Poetics Of Subjectivity

Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers and Zora Neale Hurston, 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.

• • Author: Professor Claire Raymond
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: May 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 232 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409451054
• • ISBN-13: 9781409451051