| Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence Contributor(s): Whitney, Sarah E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252081927 ISBN-13: 9780252081927 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 813.009 |
| LCCN: 2016005497 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 fraught with risk. Whitney's analysis places the authors within a female gothic tradition that has long given voice to women's fears of their own powerlessness. But she also reveals the paradox that allows the genre to powerfully critique postfeminism's often sunshiney outlook while uneasily coexisting within the same universe. |