Drawing the Line: The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison

Index

Index Abel, Elizabeth, 2, 4, 94, 108 abjection: defined, 10–12; and Freud’s death drive, 99–100; and grace in O’Connor, 73–74, 78, 79–83; in Native Son, 50–51, 52, 53, 59–60, 60–62 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 21, 149n8 Appiah, Anthony, 3 “Artificial Nigger, The” (O’Connor), 74–83; abjection and grace in, 73–74, 78, 79–83, 81–83; and blackface minstrelsy , 79–81; borderline encounters in, 77–78, 79–83; and boundarymaking , 76–77, 80–81; doubling in, 77, 80–81; and incorporation, desire for, 78; poststructuralism in, 75; prophet figure in, 82; and racism, 74–75, 79–81, 160 Asals, Frederick, 80, 151n2 Awkward, Michael, 2, 125, 142 Baker, Houston, 5 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 6 Baldwin, James, 114 Barnett, Ned, 46–48 Barnum, P. T., 120 Barr, Caroline, 47 Beloved (Morrison), 6–7, 10–13, 93–110; and abjection, 99–100; and blackface minstrelsy, 128; black subjectivity in, 94–95; chapter synopsis, 18–19; and the chora, 106; community, desire for, 185–86; doubling in, 97–98; identi fication, totalizing, 103; identificatory father figures in, 98, 99–100, 100–101, 103–5, 106, 107, 108–10; paternal function in, 94–98, 103–5, 108–10; pre-Oedipal mother in, 96, 106; and pre-symbolic, return to, 105–6; primal scene in, 96–98 Benjamin, Jessica, 1, 7, 17, 83–84, 154n6, 155n12; theory of socialization, 8–10 Benston, Kimberly, 157n9 Bhabha, Homi, 8 blackface minstrelsy, 19–20, 111–24; in “The Artificial Nigger,” 79–81, 122; in Beloved, 122; and black blackface performers, 120–22; in Black Like Me, 122; and black manhood, fear of, 116–17; and boundaries, 142–43; defined, 113–14; and father’s mediating role, perversion of, 114–24; in Intruder in the Dust, 122; and Irish immigrants, 123–24; and miscegenation , feared desire for, 118–19; in Native Son, 122; in To Kill a Mockingbird, 122–23 Black Like Me (Griffin), 124–40, 156–57n8; and blackface minstrelsy, 124–25, 128, 129–30, 132, 133; identi ficatory father figures in, 133–40; and uncanny doubles, 127–30, 131, 134; and white passing, 138–39 Bleikasten, André, 152n14 Fowler, final pages.indd 169 Fowler, final pages.indd 169 2/21/13 10:32 AM 2/21/13 10:32 AM 170 Index Blotner, Joseph, 24, 46, 145n3 boundaries: and abjection, 142–43; and blackface minstrelsy, 114–24; defined, 6–7, 141–43; and doubleness , 141–42; in Intruder in the Dust, 32–36; in Native Son, 50–54, 61–65; and paternal function, 6–13; and transgression, 1–2 Brinkmeyer, Robert, 72–73, 150n1, 151n2, 152n8 Browning, Preston, 72 Bryant, Jerry, 148n2 Burkman, Katherine H., 80, 152n9 Butler, Robert J., 15 Campbell, Joseph, 155n13 Cheatham, George, 152n9 Christian, Barbara, 1, 94 Ciuba, Gary, 150n1 Cixous, Hélène, 2 Coindreau, Maurice, 14 community identification, problem of, 1–5, 63–67, 93–94 Cook, Bruce A., 157n8 Crawford, Nicholas, 151n2 cross-racial identification, 3–4; and blackface minstrelsy, 114–24; in Native Son, 65–67 Cullen, John B., and lynching of Nelse Patton, 23–24, 145n3 Cummings, Kate, 154n5 Davis, Cynthia, 153n3 Davis, Thadious M., 147–48n16 De Chardin, Teilhard, 152n12 De Lauretis, Teresa, 5, 93 Demetrakopoulos, Stephanie A., 153n3, 154n5 Derrida, Jacques, 151n4 Dickens, Charles, 119–20 doubling: in “Greenleaf,” 83–87; in Intruder in the Dust, 25–27, 42–44; in Native Son, 56–57, 58 Douglass, Frederick, 114 Doyle, Don, 24 Dreisinger, Baz, 112, 124–25, 127, 129, 156nn4–7 Du Bois, W. E. B., 125 duCille, Ann, 3–4, 153n2 Dussere, Eric, 46, 147nn11–13 Duvall, John N., 72–73, 80, 151n2, 152n10, 155–56n2 Eagleton, Terry, 32 Ellison, Ralph, 5, 115, 121 Elmer, Jonathan, 148n1 “Enduring Chill, The” (O’Connor), 73–74, 87–91; abjection and grace, 87–88, 91–92; identification, threat of, 87; prophet figures in, 88–89, 90, 91–92 Fabre, Michel, 51, 52, 148n2, 150n13 father figures: and mother’s double in Intruder in the Dust, 27–29, 30–36; in Native Son, 61–65; Oedipal father in Intruder in the Dust, 26–27; and prophets in O’Connor, 74, 145n3 Faulkner, William, 5, 12, 13–16, 21–48, 147n12; Absalom, Absalom!, 15–16; chapter synopsis, 15–16; “Dry September,” 24; Faulkner in the University, 15–16; “On Fear,” 41, 42; Go Down, Moses, 37, 47; interview, Russell Howe, 40, 41, 42; Light in August, 30–31; Lion in the Garden...