{"id":44693,"date":"2015-12-22T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44693"},"modified":"2015-12-22T23:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T23:49:54","slug":"unwed-mothers-race-and-transgression-in-william-faulkners-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44693","title":{"rendered":"Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner\u2019s Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckendree.edu\/academics\/scholars\/allen-issue-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner\u2019s Novels<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckendree.edu\/academics\/scholars\" target=\"_blank\">McKendree University Scholars Journal<\/a><br \/>\nLebanon, Illinois<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckendree.edu\/academics\/scholars\/issue-24.php\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 24, Winter 2015<\/a><br \/>\n16 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mindy Allen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a modernist writer, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Faulkner\" target=\"_blank\">William Faulkner<\/a> is conflicted with the autonomy he can allow for his female characters, particularly unmarried mothers. Ideology about women during the early twentieth century, including the debates of birth control and the loss of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_belle\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Belle<\/a>,<br \/>\ninfluence the creation of Faulkner\u2019s female characters. The purpose of this paper is to explore how Faulkner\u2019s unmarried mothers transgress sexual boundaries imposed by patriarchal values in the novels <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/As_I_Lay_Dying\" target=\"_blank\"><em>As I Lay Dying<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sound_and_the_Fury\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sound and the Fury<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Light_in_August\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Light in August<\/em><\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Absalom,_Absalom!\" target=\"_blank\">Absalom! Absalom!<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Go_Down,_Moses_(book)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Go Down, Moses<\/em><\/a>. Faulkner\u2019s female characters can no longer strive towards the status of the Southern Belle as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_South\" target=\"_blank\">New South<\/a> ideals emerge. Faulkner includes many unmarried mothers in his novels, as well as mixed race unmarried mothers. He leaves the impression that, through his novels, he attempts to make since of females transgressing sexual and racial boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckendree.edu\/academics\/scholars\/allen-issue-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unwed Mothers, Race, and Transgression in William Faulkner\u2019s Novels McKendree University Scholars Journal Lebanon, Illinois Issue 24, Winter 2015 16 pages Mindy Allen As a modernist writer, William Faulkner is conflicted with the autonomy he can allow for his female characters, particularly unmarried mothers. Ideology about women during the early twentieth century, including the debates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20,25],"tags":[22360,22363,490],"class_list":["post-44693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-mckendree-university-scholars-journal","tag-mindy-allen","tag-william-faulkner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44694,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44693\/revisions\/44694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}