Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926

ISBN-13: 9781558490567 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 328 str.

Catherine A. Lundie; Edith Wharton; Zora Neale Hurston

Opis

Just as dreams have long been associated with the unconscious, ghost stories have often served as forums for otherwise unapproachable issues. This volume brings together a lively selection of ghost stories by women writers, who use the genre to reveal and challenge prevailing cultural discourses on the nature and status of women. Depicting marriage, motherhood, female sexuality, spinsterhood, widowhood, and the intersection of madness and medical practice, the authors displace their critiques of dominant ideologies onto the supernatural, thus shielding themselves from critical recrimination. Their evocative works provide a resource for insights into women's writing and lives.