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Cannibal Fictions by Jeff Berglund
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780299215941
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
Objects of fear and fascination, cannibals have long signified an elemental otherness, an existence outside the bounds of normalcy. In the American imagination, the figure of the cannibal has evolved tellingly over time, as Jeff Berglund shows in this study, encompassing a strikingly eclectic collection of cultural, literary, and cinematic texts. Cannibal Fictions brings together two discrete periods in U.S. history: the years between the Civil War and World War I, the high-water mark in America's imperial presence, and the post-Vietnam era, when the nation was beginning to question its own global agenda seriously. Fannie Flagg's novel Fried Green Tomatoes invokes cannibalism to new effect, offering an explicit critique of racial, gender, and sexual politics (an element to a large extent suppressed in the movie adaptation).
Daughters of Desire by Shameem Kabir
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781474290470
Publication Date: 2016-10-06
This book explores lesbians in film from early representations to contemporary ones, spanning sixty years and over twenty films. Concentrating on lesbian desire and subtext, Kabir draws on films such as Queen Christina, The Killing of Sister George, Rebecca, Desperately Seeking Susan and The Color Purple. She details their narratives in conjunction with an examination of different spectating positions and new syntheses of filmic languages. Deploying lesbian history, black subjectivity, feminist film criticism and material from psychoanalysis, Daughters of Desire explores narrative, desire and identifications. From castration and agency to the fetishization of beauty, from mothering, narcissism, and Oedipus to rage and trauma, Kabir crosses frontiers in film studies and feminist theory.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Call Number: PS3556 .L26 F7 1997
ISBN: 0449911357
Publication Date: 1997-01-21
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who's in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who's telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women--the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter--even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.
Novels for students. Volume 7 by Stanley, Deborah A., editor.
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1414428006
Publication Date: 1999
Includes Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe / Fannie Flagg

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