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Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South - Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South - Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily
Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers,
and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of
femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence
in American women's literature and photography from the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dickinson's poetry is read
through its relationship to the Southern Agrarian critics who
championed her work. While the representations of violence found in
Carrie Mae Weems's installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I
Cried, Morrison's Beloved, Dickinson's poetry, O'Connor's 'A View
of the Woods' and 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find,' Allison's Bastard
Out of Carolina, McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Cafe, and Hurston's
Mules and Men are diverse in terms of artistic presentation, all
allude to or are set in the antebellum and Jim Crow South. In
addition, all involve feminine characters whose subjectivity is
shaped by the practice of seeing acts of violence inflicted where
there can be no effective resistance. While not proposing an
equivalence between representing violence in visual images and
written text, Raymond does suggest that visual images of violence
can be interpreted in context with written evocations of violent
imagery. Invoking sadism in its ethical sense of violence enacted
on a victim for whom self-defense and recourse of any kind are
impossible, Raymond's study is ultimately an exploration of the
idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of feminine
characters as witnesses to sadistic acts is a phenomenon distinctly
of the American South that is linked to the culture's history of
racism.
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