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“Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997)
Title
“Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997).
Creator
Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Graduate College
Date Issued
2011-04-08
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164529
Subject Headings
Authorship --Sex differences, Caribbean literature (English) --History and criticism, Caribbean Area --Fiction
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Silence and sympathy: Race in the early short fiction of William Faulkner
Title
Silence and sympathy: Race in the early short fiction of William Faulkner.
Creator
Gifford, Sheryl C., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
Abstract/Description
Much critical debate has surrounded William Faulkner's treatment of race relations in the South; indeed, it is difficult to believe that a white Southern male could transcend the psychosocial realities that led to racial divisions in the post-Civil War South. However, Faulkner, as the "well-endowed" Aristotelian poet, was able to involve himself in the emotions he sought to imitate, and thus was able to transcend racial issues in the compact fictive space he established. Intent upon mastering...
Show moreMuch critical debate has surrounded William Faulkner's treatment of race relations in the South; indeed, it is difficult to believe that a white Southern male could transcend the psychosocial realities that led to racial divisions in the post-Civil War South. However, Faulkner, as the "well-endowed" Aristotelian poet, was able to involve himself in the emotions he sought to imitate, and thus was able to transcend racial issues in the compact fictive space he established. Intent upon mastering the intricacies of the short story, Faulkner, the self-admitted "failed poet," utilizes this genre to construct a subtle yet powerful critique of hypocritical racial divisions common in the postbellum South. The silences and subversive sympathies that abound in such short stories as "Dry September" and "That Evening Sun" are caught up within the confines of this fictive space, provoking the reader to resolve the discrepancies that purposefully exist.
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Date Issued
1999
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15708
Subject Headings
Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Political and social views., Race relations in literature., African Americans in literature., Southern States--In literature.
Format
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(Re)making men, representing the Caribbean Nation: authorialIndividuation in works by Fred D’Aguiar, Robert Antoni, andMarlon James
Title
(Re)making men, representing the Caribbean Nation: authorialIndividuation in works by Fred D’Aguiar, Robert Antoni, andMarlon James.
Creator
Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This dissertation proposes that West Indian contemporary male writers develop literary authority, or a voice that represents the nation, via a process of individuation. This process enables the contemporary male writer to unite the disparities of the matriarchal and patriarchal authorial traditions that inform his development of a distinctive creative identity. I outline three stages of authorial individuation that are inspired by Jung’s theory of individuation. The first is the contemporary...
Show moreThis dissertation proposes that West Indian contemporary male writers develop literary authority, or a voice that represents the nation, via a process of individuation. This process enables the contemporary male writer to unite the disparities of the matriarchal and patriarchal authorial traditions that inform his development of a distinctive creative identity. I outline three stages of authorial individuation that are inspired by Jung’s theory of individuation. The first is the contemporary male writer’s return to his nationalist forebears’ tradition to dissolve his persona, or identification with patriarchal authority; Fred D’Aguiar’s “The Last Essay About Slavery” and Feeding the Ghosts illustrate this stage. The second is his reconciliation of matriarchal (present) and patriarchal (past) traditions of literary authority via his encounter with his forebears’ feminized, raced shadow; Robert Antoni’s Blessed Is the Fruit evidences this process. The third is the contemporary male writer’s renunciation of authority defined by masculinity, which emerges as his incorporation of the anima, or unconscious feminine; Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women exemplifies this final phase of his individuation.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004021
Subject Headings
Antoni, Robert -- 1958- -- Blessed is the fruit -- Criticism and interpretation, D'Aguiar, Fred -- 1960- -- Feeding the ghosts -- Criticism and interpretation, D'Aguiar, Fred -- 1960- -- Last essay about slavery -- Criticism and interpretation, James, Marlon -- 1970- -- Book of night women -- Criticism and interpretation, Jungian psychology
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