No! in Whispers: The Rhetoric of Dissent in American Writing

ISBN-13: 9783034320016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 234 str.

Michele Bottalico

Opis

The essays in this book explore the rhetoric of dissent in a range of texts that include letters, novels, poems and nonfiction, mostly focusing on selected works by such authors as Abigail Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Ovington, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo.

Spis treści

Women's Dissent in Early American Writing, from Abigail Adams to the Seduction Novel - Regime Change: Semiotic Tyranny and Dissent in The Scarlet Letter - Dissent in Salvation: A Rhetoric of Uncertainty in Nathaniel Hawthorne - »These dark people who speak our language«: Mary Ovington and the Rhetoric of Evidence - Sounds of Silence, Violence, Madness in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Jazz - »So tell me about my country...later«: Strategies of Distancing in Adrienne Rich's The School Among the Ruins - 'The End Times Never End': Neo-Apocalyptic Rhetoric and Dissent in Contemporary American Fiction - Out of Place, at the Origins of Edward Said's Literature of Dissent - Dissenting Variations. The Rhetoric of New Musicology

O autorze

Michele Bottalico, former Full Professor of American Literature at the University of Salerno, Italy, has published widely on early American literature, the 1920s novel, Chicano literature, odeporic literature and autobiographical writing. His latest work is a collection of essays on Italian American culture, which he edited in 2018.