Destination South: Lena Grove's "Like a lady travelling".
Unlike Southern women writers such as Kate Chopin, Eudora Welty or Flannery O'Connor, who in their fiction reject and subvert stereotypical representations of Southern womanhood of any race or class, William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fiction offers a rather stereotypical portrayal of Southern womanho...
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