Leslie Jamison considers "the enduring appeal of the afflicted woman " especially the young, beautiful, white afflicted woman: our favorite tragic victim, our repository of rarefied, elegiac sadness" " and considers other approaches, both those of other sorts of women writers to suffering and those to life and its misfortunes that don't focus on despondence. […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24PM on November 7, 2019