SOURCE: “‘Dorris Dances … John Dreams’: Free Indirect Discourse and Female Subjectivity in Cane,” in Soundings, Vol. 80, No. 4, Winter, 1997, pp. 455-74.
In the following essay, Abbott considers the function of the female characters in Cane, maintaining that they are often the “sites onto which men project their judgments and desires.”
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