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Drawing the Line: The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison
Doreen Fowler
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Description for Drawing the Line: The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers—William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison—to examine the father's function as a ""border figure."" Although the father has most commonly been interpreted as the figure who introduces opposition and exclusion to the child, Fowler finds in these literary depictions fathers who instead support the construction of a social identity by mediating between cultural oppositions. The new theoretical model that Fowler develops for the father's mediating role in initiating gender, race, and other social differences shows not only ... Read more
In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers—William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison—to examine the father's function as a ""border figure."" Although the father has most commonly been interpreted as the figure who introduces opposition and exclusion to the child, Fowler finds in these literary depictions fathers who instead support the construction of a social identity by mediating between cultural oppositions. The new theoretical model that Fowler develops for the father's mediating role in initiating gender, race, and other social differences shows not only ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813933993
SKU
V9780813933993
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About Doreen Fowler
Doreen Fowler, Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA is the author of Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed (Virginia).
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