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

by Doreen Fowler

Book Overview

In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers--William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison--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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813933994
• ISBN13: 9780813933993
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"