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“The nigger that’s going to sleep with your sister": Charles Bon and Joe Christmas as Black Rapists in William Faulkner’s Oeuvre
“The nigger that’s going to sleep with your sister": Charles Bon and Joe Christmas as Black Rapists in William Faulkner’s Oeuvre // Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800-2000 / Plath, Lydia ; Lussana, Sergio (ur.).
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. str. 134-156
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Naslov
“The nigger that’s going to sleep with your sister": Charles Bon and Joe Christmas as Black Rapists in William Faulkner’s Oeuvre
Autori
Oklopčić, Biljana
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni
Knjiga
Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800-2000
Urednik/ci
Plath, Lydia ; Lussana, Sergio
Izdavač
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Grad
Newcastle upon Tyne
Godina
2009
Raspon stranica
134-156
ISBN
1-4438-0596-3
Ključne riječi
William Faulkner, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, the black rapist myth
Sažetak
The aim of this paper is twofold. The first part of the paper discusses the production of the black rapist myth in the U.S. South. The second part of the paper focuses on the characters of Joe Christmas and Charles Bon in William Faulkner’s Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!. Their performance of the black rapist myth relies upon two different conceptions of one-drop “blackness: whereas Joe Christmas, as a homegrown “black”, violently challenges the racialized and sexualized discourse of the black rapist myth, Charles Bon, as the exotic “other”, performs the black rapist myth with aristocratic splendor calling into question its exclusively heterosexual inscription.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija
