Oates (not) reading Faulkner reading Poe : A study of American gothic fiction

• Yamauchi, Ryo

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Poeを読むFaulknerを読む/読まないOates : アメリカン・ゴシック小説を巡る一考察
• Poe オ ヨム Faulkner オ ヨム/ヨマナイ Oates : アメリカン ・ ゴシック ショウセツ オ メグル イチ コウサツ

Abstract

This paper aims at examining the intertextuality of Edgar Allen Poe's “The Black Cat,” William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily,” and Joyce Carol Oates's “The Temple” within the context of American gothic criticism. When she anthologized “The Black Cat” and “A Rose for Emily” in the collection of stories, American Gothic Tales (1996), Oates added her own story “The Temple” to its selection, a story rewriting the theme of femininity in these two earlier gothic tales written by the male writers, thus contributing to reexamination of the canonical American literary history and reevaluation of women writers. On the other hand, however, Oates didn't give due consideration to racial blackness in American gothic fiction, whose invisibility in the guise of esoteric darkness has recently attracted attention from critics. A close reading of “A Rose for Emily” reveals that Oates's intertextual rewriting of femininity repeats the pattern of marginalizing black characters and their “realism” in the grotesque mode of gothic fiction.

Journal

• Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Kagawa University. Part I

  Memoirs of the Faculty of Education, Kagawa University. Part I 138 119-129, 2012-09-30

  香川大学教育学部

Details

• CRID: 1050006297336584832
• NII Article ID: 120007014338
• NII Book ID: AN00038237
• NDL BIB ID: 024031572
• ISSN: 04549309
• Web Site: https://kagawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2023
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/024031572
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I024031572
• Text Lang: ja
• Article Type: departmental bulletin paper
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