Drawing the Line The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison【電子書籍】[ Doreen Fowler ]

＜p＞In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writersーWilliam Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrisonー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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fowler counters the widely accepted notion that boundaries are solely sites of exclusion and offers a new theoretical model of boundary construction. She argues that boundaries are mysterious, dangerous, in-between places where a balance of sameness and difference makes differentiation possible. In the fiction of these southern writers, father figures introduce a separate cultural identity by modeling this mix of relatedness and difference. Fat．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る