"Whiter Than Your Dreams": The Pink-Eyed Ladies of Welty's Fiction.
This essay explores the semantics of skin, constructs of whiteness and bodies with albinism in Eudora Welty's fiction. Topics discussed include Welty's deconstruction of socially engendered hierarchies of identity and parameters of womanhood, albinism through the lens of feminist disability theory,...
| Publicado en: | Women's Studies Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 208 - 230 |
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