TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perdigao, Lisa K.
TI  - From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation: dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction 
SN  - 9780754667179 (hardback : alk. paper)
U1  - 813.0093561 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - American fiction-History and criticism.-20th century-
N1  - "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."
ER  -