Books by Claire Raymond

Focusing on the later work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman, the author takes up the question of the distintegrative condition of the art she produced in the last year of her life.

Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers and Zora Neale Hurston, Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography.

Traces the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath. This study sounds out the ways that the trope of the posthumous voice succeeds in negotiating the difficult cultural space between the concept of woman's body and the production of canonical literature.

In her feminist inquiry into aesthetics and the sublime, the author reinterprets the work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman. She argues that Woodman's photographs of decrepit architecture allegorically depict the dissolution of the frame, a dissolution Derrida links to theories of the sublime in Kant's "Critique of Judgment".