Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction: Faulkner, SIMMs, Page, and Dixon

ISBN-13: 9780230603202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 203 str.

Joseph B. Keener

Opis

The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner.

Recenzje

"A unique, lively text.... Keener traces the textual and historical evolutions of the idea of Shakespeare as the literary-cultural father through three successive Southern figures, with their distinct appropriations and re-inscriptions, not only of Shakespeare, but also of a distinct body of Southern Shakespearean appropriations and re-inscriptions." - Philip Beidler, Professor of English, University of Alabama and series editor for Signs of Race

Spis treści

William Gilmore Simms and William Shakespeare: Combining the Father and Son Thomas Nelson Page's Mythmaking and Shakespearean Masculinity Fear of a Black Planet: Thomas Dixon, Jr. and the Narration of the Self Via an Other Who's Your Daddy? William Faulkner's Making of the Father and Son I'm My Own Grandpa: Quentin Compson's Shakespearean Solution

O autorze

Joseph B. Keener is Assistant Professor of English at Dalton State College.