The spaces of violence /
Examines 10 novels for the ways they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. The author argues that each of the novels he studies represent a "fourthspace" at the margins of physical, social, and psychological space, a territory at the cultural borders of the mainstream.
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2006.
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Sumário:
- Violence and space
- Discovering fourthspace in Appalachia : Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and Child of God
- Russell Banks's Affliction : "all those solitary dumb angry men"
- Of vultures, eyeballs, and parrots : Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle
- The myth of the Boatright Men : Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina
- Playing for death : Don Delillo's End Zone
- Drifting through Urantia : greyhound space in Denis Johnson's Angels
- The return of John Smith : Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer
- "The Battle of Bob Hope" and "The Great Elephant Zap" : Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers
- "I hope you didn't go into raw space without me": Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
- Violence and family structures.