Faulkner and Southern Womanhood - Softcover

Roberts, Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820317411 ISBN 13: 9780820317410

Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1995

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Roberts's readings are everywhere interesting, and frequently new. Virtually every page offers, for me at least, a provocative interpretation of even the tiniest detail. Her literary scholarship, too, is exemplary. Clearly she has read the Faulkner criticism as carefully and as widely as she has the numerous texts of southern culture within whose context she carries out her own analyses of Faulkner's work. --Anne Goodwyn Jones "Mississippi Quarterly "

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In Faulkner and Southern Womanhood, Diane Roberts examines the vexed and contradictory responses of the South's most celebrated novelist to the traditional representations of women that were bequeathed to him by his culture. The very mention of "the South, " Roberts observes, conjures up a crazy quilt of images - from the romantic to the violent, from the gracious and glamorous to the backward and racist. The phrase "southern woman" likewise evokes a whole range of stock characters and stereotypes. Tracing the ways in which William Faulkner characterized women in his fiction, Roberts posits six familiar representations - the Confederate woman, the mammy, the tragic mulatta, the new belle, the spinster, and the mother - and, through close feminist readings, shown how the writer reactivated and reimagined them. In so doing, Roberts sees Faulkner as both a product and a producer of that multi-faceted place - and metaphor - called the South. "As a southerner, " she writes, "Faulkner inherited the images, icons, and demons of his culture. They are part of the matter of the region with which he engages, sometimes accepting, sometimes rejecting." Drawing on extensive research into southern popular culture and the findings and interpretations of historians, Roberts demonstrates how Faulkner's greatest fiction, published during the 1920s and 1930s, grew out of his reactions to the South's attempts to redefine and solidify its hierarchical conceptions of race, gender, and class. During the era in which Faulkner's psyche was formed, the South's efforts to maintain its cultural stability included everything from lynching to erecting Confederate monuments and apotheosizing Gone with the Wind.Struggling to understand his region, Roberts says, Faulkner exposed the South's self-conceptions as quite precarious, with women slipping toward masculinity, men slipping toward femininity, and white identity slipping toward black. At their best, according to Roberts, Faulkner's novels r

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• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0820317411
• ISBN 13: 9780820317410
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266