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The Belle Gone Bad : White Southern Women Writers and the Dark Seductress.
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| 著者・編者 | Entzminger, Betina, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Southern Literary Studies) |
| 出版社 | (Louisiana State University Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2002 |
| ページ数 | 201 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜L25-52074＞ |
解説
When Scarlett O'Hara fluttered her dark lashes, did she threaten only the gentleman in her parlor or the very culture that produced her? Examining the ""bad belle"" as a recurring character, The Belle Gone Bad fi?nds that white southern women writers from the antebellum period to the present have used treacherous belles to subtly indict their culture from within. Combining the southern ideal of ladyhood with the sexual power of the dark seductress, the bad belle is the perfect fi?gure with which to critique a culture that effectively enslaved both its white and black women.
Betina Entzminger traces the development of the bad belle from nineteenth-century domestic novelist E.D.E.N. Southworth to contemporary novelist Kaye Gibbons. Coy and alluring like the traditional southern belle, the bad belle is also manipulative and knowing; the men subject to her cultivated charms often meet disastrous ends. By making the patriarch vulnerable to women who outwardly conform to the limiting conventions of womanhood but inwardly break all the rules, these writers challenged a society that stereotyped black women as promiscuous and forced white women onto pedestals while committing heinous acts in their name. Representations of the bad belle evolved along with southern society, and by the late twentieth century, many women writers expressed emancipation through the literal or fi?gurative destruction of corrupt or would-be belles.
The Belle Gone Bad shows that even writers who have been critically dismissed as too domestic or conservative to be innovative did, through the strategy of the bad belle character, challenge southern institutions and conceptions about race, class, and gender. What unites the dangerous belles created by several generations of women writing in the South, old and new, is their liberating potential.
Betina Entzminger traces the development of the bad belle from nineteenth-century domestic novelist E.D.E.N. Southworth to contemporary novelist Kaye Gibbons. Coy and alluring like the traditional southern belle, the bad belle is also manipulative and knowing; the men subject to her cultivated charms often meet disastrous ends. By making the patriarch vulnerable to women who outwardly conform to the limiting conventions of womanhood but inwardly break all the rules, these writers challenged a society that stereotyped black women as promiscuous and forced white women onto pedestals while committing heinous acts in their name. Representations of the bad belle evolved along with southern society, and by the late twentieth century, many women writers expressed emancipation through the literal or fi?gurative destruction of corrupt or would-be belles.
The Belle Gone Bad shows that even writers who have been critically dismissed as too domestic or conservative to be innovative did, through the strategy of the bad belle character, challenge southern institutions and conceptions about race, class, and gender. What unites the dangerous belles created by several generations of women writing in the South, old and new, is their liberating potential.