How Long to Read Drawing the Line

How Long Does it Take to Read Drawing the Line?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read Drawing the Line by Doreen Fowler

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers—William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison—to examine the father's function as a "border figure." Although the father has most commonly been interpreted as the figure who introduces opposition and exclusion to the child, Fowler finds in these literary depictions fathers who instead support the construction of a social identity by mediating between cultural oppositions. Fowler counters the widely accepted notion that boundaries are solely sites of exclusion and offers a new theoretical model of boundary construction. She argues that boundaries are mysterious, dangerous, in-between places where a balance of sameness and difference makes differentiation possible. In the fiction of these southern writers, father figures introduce a separate cultural identity by modeling this mix of relatedness and difference. Fathers intervene in the mother-child relationship, but the father is also closely related to both mother and child. This model of boundary formation as a balance of exclusion and relatedness suggests a way to join with others in an inclusive, multicultural community and still retain ethnic, racial, and gender differences. Fowler's model for the father's mediating role in initiating gender, race, and other social differences shows not only how psychoanalytic theory can be used to interpret fiction and cultural history but also how literature and history can reshape theory.

How long is Drawing the Line?

Drawing the Line by Doreen Fowler is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Drawing the Line Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Drawing the Line aloud.

What Reading Level is Drawing the Line?

Drawing the Line is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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