My thesis explores the formation of the subject in the novels of Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. I attach the concept of property in terms of how male protagonists are obsessed with materialistic ownership and with the subordination of women who, as properties, consolidate their manhood. The three novelists despite their racial, gendered, and literary differences share the view that identity and truth are mere social and cultural constructs. I incorporate the work of Judith Butler and other poststructuralist figures, who see identity as a matter of performance rather than a natural entity. My thesis explores the theme of freedom, which I attached to the ways characters use their bo...
The two parts of William Faulkner’s If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—“The Wild Palms” and “Old Man”—mirro...
AbstractMagical realism has been commonly identified as a subversive and discursive narrative techni...
Violent Disruptions contends that the works of Richard Wright and William Faulkner are mirror images...
In the course of its development as a genre, the novel shifted in the mid-twentieth century from a m...
“Race, Women, and the South: Faulkner’s Connection to and Separation from the Fugitive-Agrarians” ex...
In this project, I apply Judith Butler\u27s late twentieth century theory of gender performance, out...
Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, S...
textGilberto Freyre's Casa-grande & senzala (1933) (The Masters and the Slaves) and William Faulkner...
Faulkner\u27s Subject offers a reading of William Faulkner for our time, and does so by rethinking h...
- ABSTRACT - THE LADIES AND THE WOMEN An Exploration into Faulkner’s Rhetoric of Female Hood Carolin...
Since the 1970 publication of Toni Morrison\u27s first novel, The Bluest Eye, her work has not only ...
This thesis is about the Southern plantation in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fiction: how it is represe...
Account Ability: Race, History, and the White Southern Literary Imagination / Lael GoldConcerning th...
The novels of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison are nothing if not haunted. Though the authors them...
While William Faulkner preceded the formalized movement of postcolonialism, he anticipated a great m...
The two parts of William Faulkner’s If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—“The Wild Palms” and “Old Man”—mirro...
AbstractMagical realism has been commonly identified as a subversive and discursive narrative techni...
Violent Disruptions contends that the works of Richard Wright and William Faulkner are mirror images...
In the course of its development as a genre, the novel shifted in the mid-twentieth century from a m...
“Race, Women, and the South: Faulkner’s Connection to and Separation from the Fugitive-Agrarians” ex...
In this project, I apply Judith Butler\u27s late twentieth century theory of gender performance, out...
Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, S...
textGilberto Freyre's Casa-grande & senzala (1933) (The Masters and the Slaves) and William Faulkner...
Faulkner\u27s Subject offers a reading of William Faulkner for our time, and does so by rethinking h...
- ABSTRACT - THE LADIES AND THE WOMEN An Exploration into Faulkner’s Rhetoric of Female Hood Carolin...
Since the 1970 publication of Toni Morrison\u27s first novel, The Bluest Eye, her work has not only ...
This thesis is about the Southern plantation in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fiction: how it is represe...
Account Ability: Race, History, and the White Southern Literary Imagination / Lael GoldConcerning th...
The novels of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison are nothing if not haunted. Though the authors them...
While William Faulkner preceded the formalized movement of postcolonialism, he anticipated a great m...
The two parts of William Faulkner’s If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—“The Wild Palms” and “Old Man”—mirro...
AbstractMagical realism has been commonly identified as a subversive and discursive narrative techni...
Violent Disruptions contends that the works of Richard Wright and William Faulkner are mirror images...