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Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence
Sarah E Whitney
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Description for Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081927
SKU
V9780252081927
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About Sarah E Whitney
Sarah E. Whitney is a lecturer in English and women's studies at Penn State Behrend.
Reviews for Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence
Co-winner, Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016 "This significant addition to the scholarship on postfeminism provocatively and powerfully reads a too-often-overlooked category of print fiction. Splattered Ink vividly addresses the 'dark side' of postfeminism, generating a sturdy, supple analytic frame for female-authored, often avidly female-consumed books about ... Read more