Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Recognizing the Dead -- 1 DEAD WOMAN WAILING: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- 2 DEAD WOMAN DICTATING: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw -- 3 DEAD WOMAN ROTTING: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- 4 DEAD WOMAN CURSING: Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens -- 5 DEAD WOMAN WANTING: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 6 DEAD WOMAN HECKLING: Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- 7 DEAD WOMEN GOSSIPING: Randall Kenan's Let the Dead Bury Their Dead -- 8 DEAD WOMEN HEALING: Ana Castillo's So Far from God -- 9 DEAD WOMAN COMING OF AGE: Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones -- 10 DEAD WOMAN SINGING: Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting Mother's Body -- 11 WHEN DEAD WOMEN DON'T TALK: Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.