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The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison, Vol. 195  
Author: Dana Medoro
ISBN: 0313320594
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
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." The book examines how 9 novels by Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison link variations on the figure of the menstruating woman to the bloody history of the United States and to a vision of the nation's redemptive promise.


About the Author
DANA MEDORO is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Manitoba. Her major areas of research and specialization are 19th- and 20th-century American literature and literary theory. She is currently researching the history of American medicine for a project on Nathaniel Hawthorne and has published in such journals as English Studies in Canada, Mosaic, Studies in the Novel, and Journal of Narrative Technique.




The Bleeding of America: Menstruation as Symbolic Economy in Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison, Vol. 195

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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." The book examines how 9 novels by Pynchon, Faulkner, and Morrison link variations on the figure of the menstruating woman to the bloody history of the United States and to a vision of the nation's redemptive promise.

SYNOPSIS

Menstruation as a narrative antidote to America's bloody history is revealed in the works of three major authors.

     



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