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Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South
Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity
by Claire Raymond
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"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. Raymond explores the idea that a femininity constructed by the positioning of the feminine character as witness 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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