Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers and Zora Neale Hurston, Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography.
Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers and Zora Neale Hurston, Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography.
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).
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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.
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.
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