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Redefining Stereotypes: Joanna Burden and Southern Womanhood

The aim of this paper is twofold. The first part of the paper discusses the production of female stereotypes in the U.S. South and argues that they existed to control Southern gender, race, and class relations. The second part of the paper focuses on the character of Joanna Burden in William Faulkner’s Light in August. For most of the novel Joanna Burden is depicted as a female subversive force. Her otherness is brought into being by her challenges to the sexualized and racialized inscription of Southern notions of masculine and feminine. They crystallize around three points: (1) her refusal to be confined within proper gender role ; (2) her subversion of Southern race codes, and (3) her role in the black rapist myth.

William Faulkner; Light in August; Southern womanhood; stereotypes

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