From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao''s study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representation can be traced in the move from modernist entombment to postmodernist exhumation, Perdigao considers how works by writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Richard Wright ...