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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 Gleeson-White locates a radical and specific form of the grotesque in the author's fiction: the liberating and redemptive possibilities of errant gender roles and shifting sexuality.
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"[Gleeson-White] has used the four core novels . . . for a stimulating interpretation of their restive anxiety at the formation of identity."--ForeWord MagazineSarah Gleeson-White is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney.
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- PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0817357211
- ISBN 13 9780817357214
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
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