The personal narrative in fiction: Faulkner's 'The Reivers.' (Special Issue: The Personal Narrative in Literature)

Article Abstract:

Faulkner's novel 'The Reivers' illustrates the use of personal narrative to unify the personal and community realms. The character Lucas Priest narrates an incident from his childhood in which he and two family retainers stole his grandfather's automobile. With his own grandson as audience, Lucas emphasizes the lesson his grandfather taught him concerning this episode, a lesson which transmitted community values through a code of behavior referred to as the Southern code of the gentleman.

Faulkner, William, The Reivers (Book)

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The personal narrative and Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye.' (Special Issue: The Personal Narrative in Literature)

Article Abstract:

The narrator Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' uses personal narrative to construct multiple identities which reflect the anxiety created by past losses. Holden's obsessive concern with the past suggests that his search for identity is displaced from the present onto the past as a result of his location of genuineness outside himself rather than within. Holden represents in exaggerated form the potential use of personal narrative to reconstruct the self.

Usage, The Catcher in the Rye (Novel), Salinger, J.D.

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Miss Jane and personal experience narrative: Ernest Gaines' 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.' (Special Issue: The Personal Narrative in Literature)

Article Abstract:

Ernest Gaines in 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman' successfully uses a personal narrative form derived from his experience in an oral tradition to establish an authentic voice for his fictional narrator. The character of Miss Jane Pittman is that of a 100-year-old black woman who relates her life story from childhood slavery to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Gaines deemphasizes the role of author to heighten the authenticity of his fictional narrator.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Book), Gaines, Ernest

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