TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitney,Sarah E.
TI  - Splattered ink: postfeminist gothic fiction and gendered violence 
SN  - 9780252098895
AV  - PS374.W6 
U1  - 813.009/9287 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
KW  - Moore, Susanna
KW  - Picoult, Jodi
KW  - Sapphire
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Women authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Gothic & Romance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Feminist
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Feminism & Feminist Theory
KW  - fast
KW  - Frauenroman
KW  - gnd
KW  - Gothic novel
KW  - Amerikanisches Englisch
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Terror and Brightness: What Can Postfeminist Gothic Do?; 2 Uneasy Lie the Bones: Alice Sebold's Postfeminist Gothic; 3 A Woman Might as Well Be Brave: Susanna Moore's Ambient Fright; 4 Break Through to Me: Sapphire's Ghost in the Postfeminist Machine; 5 Waking the Dead: Patricia Cornwell's Forensic Imagination; 6 Hedging Her Bets: Jodi Picoult's Textured Ambivalence; 7 Up from the Basement: Postfeminist Gothic's Captive Imagination; Notes; Works Cited; Index
N2  - "Postfeminist cultural studies has largely been focused on film, television, and other forms of mass media, with the occasional foray into the the lighthearted romantic comedy fiction known as "chick lit." In this project, the author seeks to trace a darker literary thread in contemporary U.S. women's fiction: that which exemplifies the postfeminist gothic, a genre which harnesses gothic themes and motifs to tell stories of gendered violence and pain. Whitney suggests that the novels of the popular authors in this study - Alice Sebold, Susanna Moore, Sapphire, Patricia Cornwell and Jodi Picoult - intrude violently upon the well-constructed postfeminist fantasy of a safe and equitable world at the same time that they reject victimhood as an organizing identity. The author argues that a variety of narrative strategies that jar readers, refuse to provide happy endings, and question the inevitability of crime against women in a supposedly "equitable" world provide new ways of continuing to talk about sexual and domestic violence. Whitney's attention to the literary expression of this powerful cultural motif helps to illuminate the workings of gendered violence in the contemporary U.S. cultural imagination"--
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