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008			160502s2016 ilu ob s001 0 eng
010			_a2016018900
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050	1	0	_aPS374 _b.S653 2016
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100	1		_aWhitney, Sarah E., _d1976- _e1
245	1	0	_aSplattered ink : _bpostfeminist gothic fiction and gendered violence / _cSarah E Whitney.
260			_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource.
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520	0		_a"Postfeminist cultural studies has largely been focused on film, television, and other forms of mass media, with the occasional foray into the the lighthearted romantic comedy fiction known as "chick lit." In this project, the author seeks to trace a darker literary thread in contemporary U.S. women's fiction: that which exemplifies the postfeminist gothic, a genre which harnesses gothic themes and motifs to tell stories of gendered violence and pain. Whitney suggests that the novels of the popular authors in this study - Alice Sebold, Susanna Moore, Sapphire, Patricia Cornwell and Jodi Picoult - intrude violently upon the well-constructed postfeminist fantasy of a safe and equitable world at the same time that they reject victimhood as an organizing identity. The author argues that a variety of narrative strategies that jar readers, refuse to provide happy endings, and question the inevitability of crime against women in a supposedly "equitable" world provide new ways of continuing to talk about sexual and domestic violence. Whitney's attention to the literary expression of this powerful cultural motif helps to illuminate the workings of gendered violence in the contemporary U.S. cultural imagination"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aAmerican fiction _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aGothic fiction (Literary genre), American _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1423216&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell