Claiming the Other Self: Verbal and Non-Verbal Boundaries in Weeds by Edith Summers Kelley

Gisèle Sigal (1)

1 UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

At first sight, Weeds (1923) by Edith Summers Kelley (1884-1956) portrays the misfortunes of Judith Pippinger Blackford, a poor sharecropper’s wife in rural - tobacco setting - at the turn of the twentieth century. However, beneath the surface lies a plea for the control and mastery of one’s own life both as a woman and as a mother. Such a subversive theory truly hides its game within the intricacies of the novel.

Keywords: American Literature - XXth Century - Edith Summers Kelley - Weeds - Rural Kentucky - Women - Social History - Drama - Children

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Literature

Gisèle Sigal. Claiming the Other Self: Verbal and Non-Verbal Boundaries in Weeds by Edith Summers Kelley. Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour Fédération Espaces-Frontières-Métissages (FR 4153) Laboratoire Arc Atlantique (EA 1925) Conférences trilingues : Repenser les frontières du masculin et du féminin : regards croisés de la littérature et de l'anthropologie, Hélène Finet, Apr 2016, Pau, France. ⟨hal-02326632⟩