1st Edition
From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
By Lisa K. Perdigao
Copyright 2010
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced in the move from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation, Perdigao considers how works by writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Richard Wright... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 “It was better to get her underground”; Chapter 2 “I advise you not to dig into it”; Chapter 3 “To pierce and shred those unblemished bodies”; Chapter 4 “Someone was hanging there”; Chapter 5 “Bone by bone”; Chapter 101 Conclusion;
Biography
Lisa K. Perdigao is Associate Professor of English at the Florida Institute of Technology. She is co-editor, with Mark Pizzato, of Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead (Ashgate 2010), has published articles in book collections on Adrienne Rich’s poetry, Toni Morrison’s fiction and prose, Caribbean women’s writing, and children’s and adolescent literature, and has an article forthcoming in the MLA collection on teaching William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.
'A thoughtful addition to studies of representation and the body, Perdigao's book sheds new light on a wide range of American authors who meditate on death, mourning, and language, especially as these are shadowed by gender and race.' Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
