From Modernist Entombment to Postmodernist Exhumation: Dead Bodies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

Entombment and exhumation, metaphor and metonymy, and figurative and literal are among the dichotomies that Perdigao (English, Florida Institute of Technology) encounters as she explores how 20th-century American writers represent loss and the possibility of recovery. She discusses the modernist burial plot; metaphor, metonymy, and the modern novel; corpses, theory, and the postmodern novel; the postmodern book of the dead; and Alice Walker's exhumation of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)