Description: Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South by Claire Raymond Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery OConnor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers and Zora Neale Hurston, Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American womens literature and photography. Publisher Description Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery OConnor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American womens literature and photography from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dickinsons poetry is read through its relationship to the Southern Agrarian critics who championed her work. While the representations of violence found in Carrie Mae Weemss installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Morrisons Beloved, Dickinsons poetry, OConnors A View of the Woods and A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Allisons Bastard Out of Carolina, McCullers Ballad of the Sad Café, and Hurstons Mules and Men are diverse in terms of artistic presentation, all allude to or are set in the antebellum and Jim Crow South. In addition, all involve feminine characters whose subjectivity is shaped by the practice of seeing acts of violence inflicted where there can be no effective resistance. While not proposing an equivalence between representing violence in visual images and written text, Raymond does suggest that visual images of violence can be interpreted in context with written evocations of violent imagery. Invoking sadism in its ethical sense of violence enacted on a victim for whom self-defense and recourse of any kind are impossible, Raymonds study is ultimately an exploration of the idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of feminine characters as witnesses to sadistic acts is a phenomenon distinctly of the American South that is linked to the cultures history of racism. Author Biography Claire Raymond is a Lecturer in Art History and Sociology at the University of Virginia, USA. She is the author of Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime (Ashgate, 2010). Details ISBN 1409451054 ISBN-13 9781409451051 Title Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South Author Claire Raymond Format Hardcover Year 2014 Pages 232 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd GE_Item_ID:98437064; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9781409451051
Book Title: Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South : Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Women Authors, Individual Photographers / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Gothic & Romance, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, American / Regional, History, Gender & the Law, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Claire Raymond
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Law, Social Science, Photography
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
