The Southern Man through a Northern Eye : The Southern Gentleman in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (2013) and Carthage (2014)
This article discusses the ways in which the gentleman characters in Joyce Carol Oates’s novels The Accursed and Carthage are identified with notions of displacement, and examines the ways in which the evocation of stereotypes contributes to the identification of each character as a “southern gentle...
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| description | This article discusses the ways in which the gentleman characters in Joyce Carol Oates’s novels The Accursed and Carthage are identified with notions of displacement, and examines the ways in which the evocation of stereotypes contributes to the identification of each character as a “southern gentleman.” Oates creates two characters on the edge of their communities, men for whom the “gentleman” is a persona they adopt to varying degrees of success. She deconstructs the myth of regional exceptionality in The Accursed by showing a southern gentleman and a northern pastor who fall prey to the same moral weaknesses. In Carthage¸ the Investigator’s ability to conjure the gentleman type emphasizes the artificiality of this mythical southern character. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-449d67d99be04467a2796d93799d17d42022-12-22T02:28:45ZengUniversité du Sud Toulon-VarBabel: Littératures Plurielles1277-78972263-47462015-01-013115917810.4000/babel.4078The Southern Man through a Northern Eye : The Southern Gentleman in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (2013) and Carthage (2014)Tanya TROMBLEThis article discusses the ways in which the gentleman characters in Joyce Carol Oates’s novels The Accursed and Carthage are identified with notions of displacement, and examines the ways in which the evocation of stereotypes contributes to the identification of each character as a “southern gentleman.” Oates creates two characters on the edge of their communities, men for whom the “gentleman” is a persona they adopt to varying degrees of success. She deconstructs the myth of regional exceptionality in The Accursed by showing a southern gentleman and a northern pastor who fall prey to the same moral weaknesses. In Carthage¸ the Investigator’s ability to conjure the gentleman type emphasizes the artificiality of this mythical southern character.http://journals.openedition.org/babel/4078displacementmythsouthstereotypesouthern gentleman |
| spellingShingle | Tanya TROMBLE The Southern Man through a Northern Eye : The Southern Gentleman in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (2013) and Carthage (2014) Babel: Littératures Plurielles displacement myth south stereotype southern gentleman |
| title | The Southern Man through a Northern Eye : The Southern Gentleman in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (2013) and Carthage (2014) |
| title_full | The Southern Man through a Northern Eye : The Southern Gentleman in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (2013) and Carthage (2014) |
| title_fullStr | The Southern Man through a Northern Eye : The Southern Gentleman in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (2013) and Carthage (2014) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Southern Man through a Northern Eye : The Southern Gentleman in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (2013) and Carthage (2014) |
| title_short | The Southern Man through a Northern Eye : The Southern Gentleman in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed (2013) and Carthage (2014) |
| title_sort | southern man through a northern eye the southern gentleman in joyce carol oates s the accursed 2013 and carthage 2014 |
| topic | displacement myth south stereotype southern gentleman |
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