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Reconsidering Elizabeth Bowen's Shorter Fiction: Dead Reckoning
focuses on Elizabeth Bowen's representations of violence against
the self and others. Heather Levy examines the complicity of
landscape and the implications of mayhem, murder, and suicide in
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2006) edited by Angus
Wilson and The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008) edited by Alan
Hepburn. It introduces five previously unpublished short story
fragments and two nearly complete stories from The Elizabeth Bowen
Collection at The Harry Ransom Research Center. Levy argues that
Bowen's shorter fiction is a quixotic celebration of moral
transgression, crime without punishment, and suicide without
mourners. Bowen's compassionate response to offenders and violence
anticipated the Perpetrator Trauma movement in the United States.
Her innovations with the freedom of the short story produced an
uncanny narration of violence. This book integrates the entirety of
the scholarship on Bowen's short stories in a clear and original
manner and offers a synthetic and compelling excavation of Bowen's
unpublished short stories.
The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction proposes
an insight into the ways in which Virginia Woolf engaged with the
questions of how class influences working women's occupation of
private and public space and how material privilege or economic
distress inhibits or encourages their likelihood of obtaining their
intellectual, spiritual, and physical desires. This groundbreaking
book uses class as the determining factor to assess how servants
and working class women occupy private and public space and
articulate or fail to realize their desires. Drawing upon published
and unpublished holograph and typescript drafts of the shorter
fiction in The Monks House Papers as well as the Berg Collection,
this book examines Woolf's oscillating patterns of elision,
idealization, and contempt for the voices and desires of female
servants, lesbians, gypsies, and other disenfranchised women. The
Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction also
assesses how the portrayal of working class women in the shorter
fiction becomes a vital template for the representation of working
class women in Woolf's novels and essays. This study of the
cumulative portrayal of the working class woman in all of Virginia
Woolf's shorter fiction will also be compelling for anyone
interested in social justice, especially for advocates of equality
in gender/race/class/sexuality conflicts.
A riveting, dark debut psychological thriller perfect for fans of
Gillian Flynn, S.J. Watson, and Megan Abbott From an early age, Sam
Mayfair knew she was different. Like any young girl, she developed
infatuations and lust-but her desires were always tinged with
darkness. Then, when Sam was sixteen, her life was shattered by an
abuser close to her. And she made one shocking decision whose
ramifications would reverberate throughout her life. Now, fifteen
years later, Sam learns that her abuser has been murdered. The
death of the man who plagued her dreams for years should have put
an end to the torture she's endured. But when her stepbrother,
Eric, becomes the prime suspect, Sam is flung back into the hell of
her rural Oklahoma childhood. As Sam tries to help exonerate Eric,
she must hide terrifying truths of their past from investigators.
Yet as details of the murder unravel, Sam quickly learns that some
people, including herself, will do anything to keep their secrets
buried deep. Walking Through Needles is a riveting and unflinching
look at violence, sexuality, and desire from a compelling and
unforgettable new voice in Heather Levy.
A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment,
professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its
long history of working contemporary events into storylines and
commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, professional
wrestling is also intrinsically political. Its
performance-theatricalities, machinations and conditions of
production, figurations, and audiences-arises from and engages with
the world around. Whether flowing with the mainstream of popular
culture or fighting at the fringes, professional wrestling shows us
how we are fighting, what we are fighting about, and what we are
fighting for. This edited volume asks how professional wrestling is
implicated in the current resurgence of populist politics, whether
right-wing and Trump-inflected, or leftist and socialist. How might
it do more than reflect and, in so doing, reaffirm the status quo?
While provoked by the disruptive performances of Trump as candidate
and president, and mindful of his longstanding ties to the WWE,
this timely volume looks more broadly and internationally at the
infusion of professional wrestling's worldview into the twinned
discourses of politics and populism. The contributors are scholars
from a wide range of disciplines: theater and performance studies;
cultural, media, and communication studies; anthropology and
sociology; and gender and sexuality studies. Together they argue
that the game's popularity and its populist tendencies open it to
the left as well as to the right, to contestation as well as to
conformity, making it an ideal site for working on feminist and
activist projects and ideas.
A riveting, dark debut psychological thriller perfect for fans of
Gillian Flynn, S.J. Watson, and Megan Abbott From an early age, Sam
Mayfair knew she was different. Like any young girl, she developed
infatuations and lust-but her desires were always tinged with
darkness. Then, when Sam was sixteen, her life was shattered by an
abuser close to her. And she made one shocking decision whose
ramifications would reverberate throughout her life. Now, fifteen
years later, Sam learns that her abuser has been murdered. The
death of the man who plagued her dreams for years should have put
an end to the torture she's endured. But when her stepbrother,
Eric, becomes the prime suspect, Sam is flung back into the hell of
her rural Oklahoma childhood. As Sam tries to help exonerate Eric,
she must hide terrifying truths of their past from investigators.
Yet as details of the murder unravel, Sam quickly learns that some
people, including herself, will do anything to keep their secrets
buried deep. Walking Through Needles is a riveting and unflinching
look at violence, sexuality, and desire from a compelling and
unforgettable new voice in Heather Levy.
"The World of Lucha Libre" is an insider's account of "lucha
libre," the popular Mexican form of professional wrestling. Heather
Levi spent more than a year immersed in the world of wrestling in
Mexico City. Not only did she observe live events and interview
wrestlers, referees, officials, promoters, and reporters; she also
apprenticed with a retired "luchador" (wrestler). Drawing on her
insider's perspective, she explores lucha libre as a cultural
performance, an occupational subculture, and a set of symbols that
circulate through Mexican culture and politics. Levi argues that
the broad appeal of lucha libre lies in its capacity to stage
contradictions at the heart of Mexican national identity: between
the rural and the urban, tradition and modernity, ritual and
parody, machismo and feminism, politics and spectacle.
Levi considers lucha libre in light of scholarship about sport,
modernization, and the formation of the Mexican nation-state, and
in connection to professional wrestling in the United States. She
examines the role of secrecy in wrestling, the relationship between
wrestlers and the characters they embody, and the meanings of the
masks worn by luchadors. She discusses male wrestlers who perform
masculine roles, those who cross-dress and perform feminine roles,
and female wrestlers who wrestle each other. Investigating the
relationship between lucha libre and the mass media, she highlights
the history of the sport's engagement with television: it was
televised briefly in the early 1950s, but not again until 1991.
Finally, Levi traces the circulation of lucha libre symbols in
avant-garde artistic movements and its appropriation in left-wing
political discourse. "The World of Lucha Libre" shows how a sport
imported from the United States in the 1930s came to be an iconic
symbol of Mexican cultural authenticity.
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