Faulkner and Gender - Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series - Donald M Kartiganer - Libros - University Press of Mississippi - 9781617037030 - 30 de enero de 2013
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These thirteen original essays examine William Faulkner's texts in terms of their surprising range of gender portrayals. The collection explores such themes as the male homosocial urge ay the heart of warfare, the blurring of gender distinctions in Faulkner's “epicene” figures, and the function of cross-dressing as a form of defiance of traditional hierarchies.


Publisher Marketing: These thirteen original essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1994 at the University of Mississippi, examine William Faulkner's texts in terms of their surprising range of gender portrayals. The collection explores such themes as the male homosocial urge ay the heart of warfare, the blurring of gender distinctions in Faulkner's "epicene" figures, the function of cross-dressing as a form of defiance of traditional hierarchies. Several of the essays see in Faulkner a challenge to the "culture" vs. "nature" dichotomy itself, suggesting that sex may be a product of gender rather than its origin, that the line between the biological given and the social performance may be even more tenuous than we have assumed. More than any other of the various contextualist approaches brought to bear on Faulkner's work, the focus on gender exemplifies the theory of the cultural construction of reality. Recent literary criticism, in large part owing to the emergence of feminism, has convincingly argued the difference between gender and sex, between the acculturated and the naturel. Among the results of the attention to gender in Faulkner studies is a fresh sense of fictional character as a site of multiple, sometimes clashing, personae, each gender role a signifier threatening to float free, speaking the reigning discourse, but always with a touch of conscious or unconscious parody.

Contributor Bio:  Kartiganer, Donald M Donald M. Kartiganer is the former William Howry Chair in Faulkner Studies in the Department of English at the University of Mississippi. Contributor Bio:  Abadie, Ann J Ann J. Abadie, Oxford, Mississippi, is the former associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and is coeditor of many volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series.

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Publicado 30 de enero de 2013
ISBN13 9781617037030
Editores University Press of Mississippi
Páginas 326
Dimensiones 152 × 228 × 18 mm   ·   511 g
Lengua Inglés  
Editor Abadie, Ann J.
Editor Kartiganer, Donald M.

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