Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers

by Sarah Gleeson-White

Book Overview

Adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque, as well as the latest in gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of acclaimed southern writer Carson McCullers.

This innovative reconsideration of the themes of Carson McCullers's fiction argues that her work has heretofore suffered under the pall of narrow gothic interpretations, obscuring a more subversive agenda. By examining McCullers's major novels--The Heart is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817357211
• ISBN13: 9780817357214
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"