ATDDTA(10) Paging Dana Medoro [269:15-19]

[Dave Monroe]

On 5/26/07, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:

> They took her down to the Four Corners and put her so one of her
> knees was in Utah, one in Colorado, one elbow in Arizona and the
> other in New Mexico---with the point of intersection exactly above
> the mythical crosshairs itself. Then rotated her all four ways. Her
> small features pressed into the dirt, the blood-red dirt. [269:15-19]
>
> "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." Placing Thomas Pynchon, William
> Faulkner, and Toni Morrison within this tradition, this book
> demonstrates that their novels link variations on the figure of the
> menstruating woman both to the bloody history of the United States
> and to a vision of the nation's redemptive promise."
>
> http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM2059.aspx

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