Witnessing sadism in texts of the American South : women, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity /: women, specularity, and the poetics of subjectivity. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Claire Raymond.
• Authors: Raymond, Claire, 1967-
• Contents: Contents: Introduction: sadism and specularity: mirroring femininity and sadism; Empathy and risk: photography, writing, the softest voice; Projects of identity in Carrie Mae Weems’s From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried: the crucible of witnessing; Sacrificed daughters and the grammar of enslavement in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Flannery O’Connor’s ’A View of the Woods’, and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina; ’The adequate of Hell’, or, how to watch the other suffer: Dickinson, Ransom, and Tate; Queer Southern belles: the transgender object of desire in O’Connor, McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men; Sadism and the open body: Kant, Scarry, and being in relation to the suffering other; By way of a conclusion: what I have done in your name; Appendix; Works cited; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 810.9975; American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women photographers -- United States -- History; Photography -- United States -- History; Sadism in literature; Sadism in art; Violence in literature; Violence in art; Women -- Identity; Racism -- Southern States; Southern States -- In literature; Southern States -- In art
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351872539
• Related ISBNs: 9781351872546; 9781351872522; 9781315233932
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