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100 | 1 | ▼aRoberts, Diane,▼d1959-▲ | |
245 | 1 | 0 | ▼aFaulkner and southern womanhood /▼cDiane Roberts.▲ |
260 | ▼aAthens :▼bUniversity of Georgia Press,▼c1994.▲ | ||
300 | ▼axv, 246 p. ;▼c23 cm.▲ | ||
336 | ▼atext▼btxt▼2rdacontent▲ | ||
337 | ▼aunmediated▼bn▼2rdamedia▲ | ||
338 | ▼avolume▼bnc▼2rdacarrier▲ | ||
504 | ▼aIncludes bibliographical references and index.▲ | ||
505 | 0 | ▼aThe Confederate woman -- Mammy -- The tragic mulatta -- The new belle -- The night sister -- Mothers and motherhood.▲ | |
520 | ▼aIn 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 reveal the South's failure to reassert the boundaries of race, gender, and class by which it traditionally sustained itself. Earlier studies of female characters in Faulkner's novels have charged the writer with unrelenting misogyny or have read these characters as mythic embodiments of "the life force." Offering a richer view befitting the writer's complexities and contradictions, Faulkner and Southern Womanhood revises, reimagines, and reinvigorates our understanding of Faulkner the artist and Faulkner the southerner. It reveals, fully and contentiously, the challenge Faulkner poses to the South's most sacred icons.▲ | ||
600 | 1 | 0 | ▼aFaulkner, William,▼d1897-1962▼xKnowledge and learning.▲ |
650 | 0 | ▼aWomen and literature▼zSouthern States▼xHistory▼y20th century.▲ | |
650 | 0 | ▼aStereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.▲ | |
650 | 0 | ▼aWomen in literature.▲ | |
651 | 0 | ▼aSouthern States▼xIn literature.▲ |
Faulkner and southern womanhood
자료유형
국외단행본
서명/책임사항
Faulkner and southern womanhood / Diane Roberts.
발행사항
Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1994.
형태사항
xv, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
서지주기
Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기
The Confederate woman -- Mammy -- The tragic mulatta -- The new belle -- The night sister -- Mothers and motherhood.
요약주기
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 reveal the South's failure to reassert the boundaries of race, gender, and class by which it traditionally sustained itself. Earlier studies of female characters in Faulkner's novels have charged the writer with unrelenting misogyny or have read these characters as mythic embodiments of "the life force." Offering a richer view befitting the writer's complexities and contradictions, Faulkner and Southern Womanhood revises, reimagines, and reinvigorates our understanding of Faulkner the artist and Faulkner the southerner. It reveals, fully and contentiously, the challenge Faulkner poses to the South's most sacred icons.
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0820317411 (pbk.) 0820315672 (hbk.)
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823.912 R639f
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