Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction
In Alice Walker’s vignette “The Flowers,” a young black girl’s walk in the woods is interrupted when she treads “smack” into the skull of a lynched man. As her name predicates, Myop’s age and innocence obstruct her from seeing deeply into the full implications of the scene, while the more worldly re...
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Lodz University Press
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Text Matters |
| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/6964 |