Brown explained that Fay began with his desire to know what happened to Fay Jones after she literally walked out of Joe in the middle of the novel.
I published that book in , and never did cease wondering what happened to [Fay]. This is her story. In the novel Fay, the body of the main character herself, Fay Jones, is a text upon which social, cultural, and other conflicts and story lines are written. Nor do I assert that the novel operates in destructive ways upon readers or southern women. Such an argument would be difficult indeed to support. The women are observed, catalogued, penetrated, impregnated, shot, struck, and killed.
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Such a litany constitutes not merely realism of a naive documentary sort but an esthetic that asserts the body as an establishing, fundamental text.
Her movement, or progress, through the novel is not very concerned with social-class Brown, Trent. Advanced Search. Privacy Copyright. Recommended Citation Brown, Trent. Department s English and Technical Communication. Document Type Book - Chapter. Document Version Citation. Publication Date 01 Sep Link to Full Text. Search Enter search terms:. Article Locations. Elsevier - Digital Commons.
