Dead women talking figures of injustice in American literature /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Dead woman wailing: Edgar Allan Poe's "The fall of the house of Usher"
- Dead woman dictating: Henry James's The turn of the screw
- Dead woman rotting: William Faulkner's As I lay dying
- Dead woman cursing: Alice Walker's In search of our mothers' gardens
- Dead woman wanting: Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Dead woman heckling: Tony Kushner's Angels in America
- Dead women gossiping: Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead
- Dead women healing: Ana Castillo's So far from God
- Dead woman coming of age: Alice Sebold's The lovely bones
- Dead woman singing: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting mother's body
- When dead women don't talk: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No name woman".