Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252081927)

In-depth and refreshingly readable, Splattered Ink is a bold analysis of postfeminist gothic, a literary genre that continues to jar readers, reject happy endings, and find powerful new ways to talk about violence against women.

Sarah E. Whitney explores the genre's challenge to postfeminist assumptions of women's equality and empowerment. The authors she examines--Patricia Cornwell, Jodi Picoult, Susanna Moore, Sapphire, and Alice Sebold--construct narratives around socially invisible and physically broken protagonists who directly experience consequences of women's ongoing disempowerment. Their works ask readers to inhabit women's suffering and to face the uncomfortable, all-too-denied fact that today's women must navigate lives fraught with risk. Whitney's analysis places the authors within a female gothic tradition that has long given voice to women's fears of their own powerlessness. But she also reveals the paradox that allows the genre to powerfully critique postfeminism's often sunshiney outlook while uneasily coexisting within the same universe.

Author: Sarah E. Whitney
ISBN-10: 0252081927
ISBN-13: 9780252081927
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2016
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d