The Mississippi Quarterly, June 22nd, 1996
The author examines the portrayal of women's sexuality and of motherhood in works by William Faulkner. Topics include social commentary, southern women, and the lack of contraception.
As I Lay Dying, IN HORRIFYING IF RATHER COMIC DETAIL, TELLS OF a woman--mother of five and wife of a poor tenant farmer in Mississippi--who dies relatively young and is taken on a too-long journey to Jefferson, where she is buried and replaced rather easily by the next Mrs. Bundren. Such a description may pique the interest of readers interested in women's issues. Yet, as if purposely to thwart such interest, Wi...
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