Author: Donald M. KartiganerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617030031
Category : Gender identity in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Faulkner and gender
Author: Donald M. KartiganerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617030031
Category : Gender identity in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Faulkner and Southern Womanhood
Author: Diane RobertsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780820317410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This study 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. Tracing the ways in which William Faulkner characterized women in his fiction, Diane 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 shows how the writer reactivated and reimagined them. "As a southerner," Roberts 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 extreme and sometimes violent attempts to redefine and solidify its hierarchical conceptions of race, gender, and class. 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 has traditionally sustained itself.
Faulkner and Women
Author: Doreen FowlerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617033919
Category : Women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Faulkner and Gender
Author: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conferencePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878059218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A study of gender in the works of the Nobel Prize author. Thirteen original papers from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held in 1994 at the University of Mississippi
Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf
Author: Erin K. Johns SpeesePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781472480392
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A novel feeling: aesthetics of emotion and the modern novel -- 3 Mater sacer: Addie as sublime object in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- 4 Only disconnect: Ruth Wilcox, death, and the sublime object in Howards End -- 5 Transcending the rainbow: the possibility of sublime intersubjectivity in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow -- 6 "What is R?": Mrs. Ramsay as feminism's sublime object in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse -- Epilogue: Žižek's mom: theory, feminism, and the mother -- Works cited -- Index
Gay Faulkner
Author: Phillip GordonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496826019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of American and world literature. However, some details on Faulkner’s life collected by his early biographers never made it into published form or, when they did, appeared in marginalized stories and cryptic references. The biographical record of William Faulkner’s life has yet to come to terms with the life-long friendships he maintained with gay men, the extent to which he immersed himself into gay communities in Greenwich Village and New Orleans, and how profoundly this part of his life influenced his “apocryphal” creation of Yoknapatawpha County. Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men, among them Ben Wasson, William Spratling, and Hubert Creekmore, and places his fiction into established canons of LGBTQ literature, including World War I literature and representations of homosexuality from the Cold War. The book offers a full consideration of his relationship to gay history and identity in the twentieth century, giving rise to a new understanding of this most important of American authors.
Interconnections
Author: Carol FaulknerPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Explores gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history. This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial and gender identity is constructed from individuals' lived experiences in specific historical contexts, such as westward expansion, civil rights movements, or economic depression as well as by national and transnational debates over marriage, citizenship and sexual mores. All of these essays consider multiple aspects of identity, including sexuality, class, religion, and nationality, amongothers, but the volume emphasizes gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history. Contributors: Deborah Gray White, Michele Mitchell, Vivian May, Carol MoseleyBraun, Rashauna Johnson, Hélène Quanquin, Kendra Taira Field, Michelle Kuhl, Meredith Clark-Wiltz. Carol Faulkner is Associate Professor and Chair of History at Syracuse University. Alison M. Parker is Professor and Chairof the History Department at SUNY College at Brockport.
Real Women Run
Author: Sandra FaulknerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131543783X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Real Women Run is an innovative feminist ethnography that consists of a series of linked essays and presentations about women who run at the intersections of queer, feminist, and running identities. Faulkner uses feminist grounded theory, poetic inquiry, and qualitative content analysis to examine women’s embodied stories of running: how they run, how running fits into the context of their lives and relationships, how they enact or challenge cultural scripts of women’s activities and normative running bodies, and what running means for their lives and identities. During a two-and-a-half-year ethnography with women who run, Faulkner engaged in an intersectional qualitative content analysis of websites and blogs targeted to women runners, a grounded theory poetic analysis of 41 interviews with women who run, and participant observation at road races. Real Women Run speaks to the call for a more physical feminism. This ethnography sees women’s physical and mental strength developed through running as a way to embrace the contradictions between a deconstructed focus on the mind/body split and the focus on individuals’ actual material bodies and their everyday interactions with their bodies and through their bodies with the world around them.
Women's Radical Reconstruction
Author: Carol FaulknerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, Carol Faulkner describes these women's radical view of former slaves and the nation's responsibility to them. Moving beyond the image of the Yankee schoolmarm, Women's Radical Reconstruction demonstrates fully the complex and dynamic part played by Northern women in the design, implementation, and administration of Reconstruction policy. This absorbing account illustrates how these activists approached women's rights, the treatment of freed slaves, and the federal government's role in reorganizing Southern life. Like Radical Republicans, black and white women studied here advocated land reform, political and civil rights, and an activist federal government. They worked closely with the military, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Northern aid societies to provide food, clothes, housing, education, and employment to former slaves. These abolitionist-feminists embraced the Freedmen's Bureau, seeing it as both a shield for freedpeople and a vehicle for women's rights. But Faulkner rebuts historians who depict a community united by faith in free labor ideology, describing a movement torn by internal tensions. The author explores how gender conventions undermined women's efforts, as military personnel and many male reformers saw female reformers as encroaching on their territory, threatening their vision of a wage labor economy, and impeding the economic independence of former slaves. She notes the opportunities afforded to some middle-class black women, while also acknowledging the difficult ground they occupied between freed slaves and whites. Through compelling individual examples, she traces how female reformers found their commitment to gender solidarity across racial lines tested in the face of disagreements regarding the benefits of charity and the merits of paid employment.
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