Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024): Modern
Articles

“Modern Novels”: Women’s Agency in Traditional Relationships

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  • Saoirse Ozkan
"We live in a place that is not our own." --Wallace Stevens

Published 2024-04-30

Keywords

  • Faulkner,
  • Woolf,
  • Larsen,
  • women's lives,
  • marriage,
  • motherhood,
  • autonomy,
  • identity,
  • narrative power,
  • gender roles
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How to Cite

Ozkan, S. (2024). “Modern Novels”: Women’s Agency in Traditional Relationships. Wings of Fire: Proceedings, 2(1). Retrieved from https://proceedings.francescacoppa.bergbuilds.domains/index.php/WOFProceedings/article/view/45

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Abstract

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand  all traverse the idea of womanhood in the modern world. Each book explores how women’s identities are created via their relationship to men and motherhood, and asks if it is possible for women to extricate their identities from these relationships. The complexities of the ways these novels depict women both creating and giving away their own autonomy are, ultimately, modern.

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