Splattered Ink

Splattered Ink
VYrpDAAAQBAJ
280
By:"Sarah E Whitney"
"Literary Criticism"
Published on 2016-08-01 by University of Illinois Press

Postfeminist. Gothic. “I was so alive then,” narrates the murder victim Susie \u003cbr\u003e\nSalmon in \u003cb\u003eAlice Sebold's\u003c/b\u003e bestselling novel The Lovely Bones (2002). “I thought it \u003cbr\u003e\nwas the worst thing in the world to be lying flat on my back with a sweating man \u003cbr\u003e\non top ...

In-depth and refreshingly readable, Splattered Ink is a bold analysis of postfeminist gothic, a literary genre that continues to jar readers, reject happy endings, and find powerful new ways to talk about violence against women. Sarah E. Whitney explores the genre's challenge to postfeminist assumptions of women's equality and empowerment. The authors she examines--Patricia Cornwell, Jodi Picoult, Susanna Moore, Sapphire, and Alice Sebold--construct narratives around socially invisible and physically broken protagonists who directly experience consequences of women's ongoing disempowerment. Their works ask readers to inhabit women's suffering and to face the uncomfortable, all-too-denied fact that today's women must navigate lives fraught with risk. Whitney's analysis places the authors within a female gothic tradition that has long given voice to women's fears of their own powerlessness. But she also reveals the paradox that allows the genre to powerfully critique postfeminism's often sunshiney outlook while uneasily coexisting within the same universe.

This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword alice sebold.

The book is written in enfor NOT_MATURE

Read Ebook Now
true
true

Printed Version of this book available in
BOOK

Availability of Ebook version is true,"listPrice": {"amount": 27.0,"currencyCode": "USD"in true or true

Public Domain Status false