Biblio et weblio : * Faulkner ‘s Women : characterization and meaning, Sally R. Page ed. Everett/Edwards, inc. 1973 * Sutpen’s White Women in « Absalom ,Absalom ! », seminar paper in « American Historical Novels », 2007 for Bergische Universitat Wuppertal by Julia Sossna and Lehramt Gym/Ge * Sutpen’s White women in William Faulkner’s « Absalom, Absalom ! », seminar paper ?????

The représentation of women in Absalom, Absalom !

* women in AA does not share the same code of honor as men, that’s why it seems they are on another level of reality * no semi-measure in the women’s character, they are not really balanced « they embody the extrêmes of human nature » livre 1 p25 * Clytie à la fin est destructrice mais elle permet un nouvel ordre des choses, en tous cas elle enterre à jamais la tragédie Sutpen, c’est un peu comme la purification par le feu * Uses lots of IMAGERY to characterize women * Conférence in Nagano, Japan « The opinion that women cause the trouble is not my own … They have held families together and it’s because of families that the race is continued, and I would be sorry to think that my work had given anyone the impression that I held women in morally a lower position than men, which I do not. » * Est-ce que les femmes sont considérées de la même façon selon qui les décrit et qui parle d’elles ? Car part rosa elles n’ont pas de voix directe

1 – What is their narrative voice ?
° they don’t have one, apart from Rosa, because she is the only survivor with Clytie. Her resentment can be felt in her discourse and even though she does not die literally she seems to be annihilated as a human being, because she constantly lives in the past, in a past that is destroying her
° in AA, women are often associated with nature, with the earth or the flowers …, they might represent the soil that sutpen has violated and has in the end brought to destruction ; Judith is often described with flowery dresses and clothing