Perdigao, Lisa K. <br/><br/>
From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation :  dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction / 
Lisa K. Perdigao. 
 - Farnham, Surrey, England ;  Ashgate,  2010. 
 - viii, 178 p. ; 
<br/><br/> "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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754667179 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction-History and criticism.-20th century-
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.0093561  / Fr