Lisa K. Perdigao
Ashgate
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How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Perdigao considers works by writers from William Faulkner and Richard Wright to Toni Morrison and Jeffrey Eugenides arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation complementary drives that represent differences in the role of aesthetics in relation to materialized violence and loss.
Ashgate
Hardback
200
How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao's study of American writers. Perdigao considers works by writers from William Faulkner and Richard Wright to Toni Morrison and Jeffrey Eugenides arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation complementary drives that represent differences in the role of aesthetics in relation to materialized violence and loss.