It's the Dead Folks That Do Her the Damage: Time As a Living Force in Faulkner
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
22-9-2014 3:00 PM
Description
From the beginning of his career Faulkner developed a particular interest in how time (the past) acts as a crippling force in the lives of women. Identified for decades as a creator of monstrous female characters, Faulkner endows characters like Drusilla Hawkes, Joanna Burden and Rosa Coldfield with individual strength and beauty. Rather than grotesques, his primary female characters are women damaged by the historical, racial and social pressures of a past they inherit. Time for these women is an active force that wounds them both sexually and psychologically. Faulkner treats these women with respect and admiration, reflected in their individual, and at times valiant, struggles to assert their individual identities.
Recommended Citation
Trout, Sue, "It's the Dead Folks That Do Her the Damage: Time As a Living Force in Faulkner" (2014). Humanities Symposium. 33.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2014/2014/33
It's the Dead Folks That Do Her the Damage: Time As a Living Force in Faulkner
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
From the beginning of his career Faulkner developed a particular interest in how time (the past) acts as a crippling force in the lives of women. Identified for decades as a creator of monstrous female characters, Faulkner endows characters like Drusilla Hawkes, Joanna Burden and Rosa Coldfield with individual strength and beauty. Rather than grotesques, his primary female characters are women damaged by the historical, racial and social pressures of a past they inherit. Time for these women is an active force that wounds them both sexually and psychologically. Faulkner treats these women with respect and admiration, reflected in their individual, and at times valiant, struggles to assert their individual identities.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture