Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South: Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity

By Claire Raymond

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409451054
• ISBN13: 9781409451051
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"