Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
- ISBN-10
- 0817312676
- ISBN-13
- 9780817312671
- Series
- Strange Bodies
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-02-26
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Author
- Sarah Gleeson-White
Description
This study adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque, as well as gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of the southern writer Carson McCullers. The author argues that McCullers' work has too often suffered under the pall of narrow gothic interpretations.
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