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Brian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner, as well as in more recent works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and others. These figures are also emerging in contemporary culture, from the film and best-selling novel "The Lovely Bones" to the hit television drama "Desperate Housewives". "Dead Women Talking" demonstrates that the dead, especially women, have been speaking out in American literature since well before it was fashionable. Norman argues that they voice concerns that a community may wish to consign to the past, raising questions about gender, violence, sexuality, class, racial injustice, and national identity. When these women insert themselves into the story, they do not enter precisely as ghosts but rather as something potentially more disrupting: posthumous citizens. The community must ask itself whether it can or should recognize such a character as one of its own. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death.

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• Plný název: Dead Women Talking
• Autor: Brian Norman
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 240
• EAN: 9781421407524
• ISBN: 1421407523
• ID: 01215432
• Nakladatelství: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Hmotnost: 470 g
• Rozměry: 236 × 161 × 20 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. December 2012

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