From modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation : dead bodies in twentieth-century American fiction / Lisa K. Perdigao.
By: Perdigao, Lisa K.
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TextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Ashgate, 2010Description: viii, 178 p.ISBN: 9780754667179 (hardback : alk. paper).Subject(s): American fiction-History and criticism.-20th century-DDC classification: 813.0093561
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"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."
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