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From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation - Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction (Hardcover, New Ed)
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From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation - Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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. Arguing that the crisis of bodily
representation can be traced in the move from modernist entombment
to postmodernist exhumation, Perdigao considers how works by
writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Willa Cather,
and Richard Wright to Jody Shields, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler,
and Jeffrey Eugenides reflect changing attitudes about dying,
death, and mourning. For example, while modernist writers direct
their plots toward a transformation of the dead body by way of
metaphor, postmodernist writers exhume the transformed body,
reasserting its materiality. Rather than viewing these tropes in
oppositional terms, Perdigao examines the implications for
narrative of the authors' apparently contradictory attempts to
recover meaning at the site of loss. She argues that entombment and
exhumation are complementary drives that speak to the tension
between the desire to bury the dead and the need to remember,
indicating shifts in critical discussions about the body and about
the function of aesthetics in relation to materialized violence and
loss.
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