TY - JOUR
AU - Maxey, Ruth
AB - and experiences of shame or might exist in more ambivalent relations with an 3 Giorgio Agamben affect that facilitates both subjectification and desubjectification, an affect that is claims, “Shame is what not so easily vitiated, and that may even afford us perverse, disruptive pleasures is produced in the along the way. absolute concomitance of subjectification and desubjectification, self- doi:10.1093/cwwrit/vpv037 KAYE MITCHELL loss and self-possession, servitude and sovereignty.” The University of Manchester, UK Remnants of Auschwitz, kaye.mitchell@manchester.ac.uk trans. by Daniel Heller- Roazen (New York: Zone Books, 2002), p107. Graham-Bertolini, Alison. Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Print. $85. Hardback. In this wide-ranging, ambitious study of American women’s writing, Alison Graham-Bertolini offers accessibly written, clearly argued, and often perceptive readings of a diverse range of texts. Her analyses shed light on an important and underexamined subject: the figure of the vigilante woman in modern American literature. This focus leads Graham-Bertolini’s well-researched discussion into compelling ethical, social, and jurisprudential questions about the gendered use of self-defense, violence, and even murder, and about how literary texts can engage in a broader dialogue with the “hegemonic social order by inspiring the revision of oppressive laws, politics, and economic situations” (4). The 
TI - Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction
JF - Contemporary Women's Writing
DO - 10.1093/cww/vpv040
DA - 2016-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/vigilante-women-in-contemporary-american-fiction-nw7Zeuhcva
SP - 303
EP - 304
VL - 10
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -