“There are so many of them”
Gendered spaces and isolation in Faulkner’s Sanctuary
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.23.3.113-123Palavras-chave:
Sanctuary, William Faulkner, isolation, silencing, space, place and genderResumo
Since its publication in 1931, William Faulkner’s Sanctuary has caused extensive and contradictory critical discourses. Perhaps
due to the paradoxical character of the protagonist (or antagonist, for some critics) Temple Drake, the novel was characterized by many theorists from 1950 to 1980 as an allegory between good and evil. These scholars have described Temple Drake as a woman full of sexual tricks, that is, a woman who attempts to seduce the men who surround her through her body and coquettish smile. In this article, spaces such as Old Frenchman’s Place (the ruined plantation house in which Goodwin sells drinks during Prohibition), the brothel, the courtroom, among others, will be analyzed in order to emphasize the oppressive and misogynist character of these masculine spaces in Faulkner’s novel. Additionally, it will be evaluated how these spaces contribute to the isolation and silencing of female voices, especially Temple Drake’s.
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