Name: The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison (en Inglés)
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Author: Dana Medoro
ISBN: 9780313320590

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The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Praeger

Autor

Dana Medoro

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

184

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

ISBN

0313320594

ISBN13

9780313320590

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Literatura: historia y crítica

The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison (en Inglés)

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Working from the premise that the Puritan construction of America as a return to Eden endures into American literature of the 20th century, Medoro focuses on the rhetoric of cyclical regeneration, blood, and damnation that accompanies this construction. She argues that a semiotics of menstruation infuses this rhetoric and informs the figuration of a feminine America in the nation's literary tradition: America, as a New World Eden, is haunted not only by the Fall, but also by the Curse of Eve. Placing Thomas Pynchon, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison within this tradition, this book demonstrates that their novels link variations on the figure of the menstruating woman both to the bloody history of the United States and to a vision of the nation's redemptive promise.Detailed readings of 9 novels―3 by each author―track references to menstruation and illuminate its tropological prevalence. The readings then develop a theory of menstruation as a kind of antidote functioning within narratives of violently spilled blood and blood purity. Each chapter draws on a range of disciplines―from medical history and mythography to anthropology and psychoanalysis―and situates its analysis of menstruation in relation to contemporary theories of female sexuality, human evolution, and the sacred.