The multiple formations of identity in selected texts by William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams

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dc.contributor.authorMalan, Morne
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-18T11:56:26Z
dc.date.available2009-09-18T11:56:26Z
dc.date.issued2009-09-18T11:56:26Z
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT This project compares and contrasts the ways in which selected texts by William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams render their fictional figures as modern subjects engaged in the complex processes of identity-formation and transformation. These processes are deeply rooted within the context of the American South. The interrelatedness of identity and language is explored by investigating how these texts dramatize selfhood not as an essential or homogenous state, but as a perpetual process of self-fashioning and play amid multiple positionings. The central hypothesis is that identity manifests itself necessarily and continuously as a textual discourse in and through language, and that self-fashioning gives rise to ethical questions, because identity involves not only the subject’s relation to the self, but also his or her relationships with others in closely interwoven personal, familial and communal-cultural bonds. This ethical dimension underscores the relational aspects of selfhood, that is, the notion that the individual is always situated inextricably within the social, and that the fashioning of the self is thus inconceivable without a consideration of the other. The following pairs of texts are compared: As I Lay Dying and The Glass Menagerie; The Sound and the Fury and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Light in August and A Streetcar Named Desire.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/7295
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectselfhooden_US
dc.subjectsubjectivityen_US
dc.subjectethicsen_US
dc.subjectselfen_US
dc.subjectotheren_US
dc.subjectself-fashioningen_US
dc.subjectfamilyen_US
dc.subjectcommunityen_US
dc.subjectcultureen_US
dc.subjectWilliam Faulkneren_US
dc.subjectTennessee Williamsen_US
dc.subjectthe Southen_US
dc.subjectSouthern literatureen_US
dc.subjectAmerican literatureen_US
dc.titleThe multiple formations of identity in selected texts by William Faulkner and Tennessee Williamsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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