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- Title
BLACK FEMINISM AND THE CANON: FAULKNER'S ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND MORRISON'S BELOVED AS GOTHIC ROMANCES.
- Authors
Goldstein, Philip
- Abstract
The article compares the romantic theme of William Faulkner's "Absolom, Absolom!" and Toni Morrison's "Beloved." Conventions of gothic romances adopted by each novel include multiple narrators, tormented lovers and haunted houses are explored. Both novels portray history as an imaginative reinterpretation with the character Beloved overcoming evil. Details are given for the New Criticism, black feminism and both novels' central traumatic events.
- Subjects
FAULKNER, William, 1897-1962; MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019; AUTHORS; ABSOLOM, Absolom! (Book); BELOVED (Book : Morrison); ROMANCE fiction; AFRICAN American women in literature; LITERARY criticism; FEMINISM in literature; TRAUMATISM; GOTHIC fiction (Literary genre); NARRATIVES; MODERNISM (Literary period)
- Publication
Faulkner Journal, 2004, Vol 20, Issue 1/2, p133
- ISSN
0884-2949
- Publication type
Literary Criticism