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Perdigao, Lisa K.

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Encrypting the body: Entombment, exhumation, and figuration in twentieth-century American literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Encrypting the body: Entombment, exhumation, and figuration in twentieth-century American literature./
Author:	Perdigao, Lisa K.
Description:	496 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0934.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3126276

Encrypting the body: Entombment, exhumation, and figuration in twentieth-century American literature.
Perdigao, Lisa K.

Encrypting the body: Entombment, exhumation, and figuration in twentieth-century American literature. - 496 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0934.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northeastern University, 2004.

In this dissertation, I trace developments in modern and postmodern literature by examining how the representation of the dead body in twentieth-century American literature shifts from figurations of burial to figurations of exhumation. This study analyzes how modern texts, works such as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Richard Wright's Native Son, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," and Langston Hughes's "Song for a Dark Girl," are driven to the concealment of the violated body. The constructions of this drive toward burial, whether literal or figurative, demonstrate a growing interest in and anxiety about the limits of representation that lead to a move, in postmodern literature, in works such as Sylvia Plath's "Edge," Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass," Jorie Graham's "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body," Toni Morrison's Beloved, Octavia Butler's Kindred, and Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, to recover the bodies buried in and through modernist writing.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Encrypting the body: Entombment, exhumation, and figuration in twentieth-century American literature.
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520 $a In this dissertation, I trace developments in modern and postmodern literature by examining how the representation of the dead body in twentieth-century American literature shifts from figurations of burial to figurations of exhumation. This study analyzes how modern texts, works such as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Richard Wright's Native Son, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor of Ice-Cream," and Langston Hughes's "Song for a Dark Girl," are driven to the concealment of the violated body. The constructions of this drive toward burial, whether literal or figurative, demonstrate a growing interest in and anxiety about the limits of representation that lead to a move, in postmodern literature, in works such as Sylvia Plath's "Edge," Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass," Jorie Graham's "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body," Toni Morrison's Beloved, Octavia Butler's Kindred, and Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, to recover the bodies buried in and through modernist writing.
520 $a This pattern in literature parallels developments in twentieth-century literary theory---the interest in recovery, in terms of literary excavation, as well as in the deconstruction of language, traced in discourses about the intersections between language, authority, and power. At its center, this dissertation addresses the questions which Judith Butler raises in Bodies that Matter pertaining to the relationship between the material and discursive at the site of the body: "If everything is discourse, what happens to the body? If everything is a text, what about violence and bodily injury? Does anything matter in or for poststructuralism?" (28). In my study, I explore the ways in which twentieth-century writers are invested in these questions, how their representations of the violated body work toward a material language by moving from metaphor to metonymy and from entombment to exhumation. By analyzing strategies of encrypting the body, signifying entombment and inscription, this work considers how the figuration of the dead body performs as the source of modern and postmodern texts in myriad ways, indicating the implications of such matters for body theory and the understanding of literary traditions.
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