Drawing the Line : The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison / Doreen Fowler.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fowler, Doreen
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Fatherhood in literature.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Physical Description:x, 173 pages.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Uncanny boundaries
  • Beyond Oedipus: William Faulkner's Intruder in the dust
  • Crossing a racial border: Richard Wright's Native son
  • Flannery O'Connor's Prophets
  • "Nobody could make it alone": Fathers and boundaries in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • Cross-racial identification in blackface minstrelsy and Black like me
  • Conclusion: Bridging difference.