Modernist Aesthetics and Familial Textuality: Gide\u27s Strait is the Gate

The essay explores different links drawn by Edward Said and Jean Bone between early modernist fiction and what they call bachelor literature or discourse. The latter attempted to break free from the bourgeois ideology of the family as constituted in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Modernist fiction is anti-bourgeois and anti-familial in some of its deepest impulses. In Strait is the Gate Jerome\u27s narrative is a tale of failed courtship that has as its setting bourgeois family life in a stage of dissolution. Out of the overwrought family drama emerges an aesthetic problematic: Jerome\u27s account of a fragmented narrative that eschews the traditional orderings of the récit. Moving beyond traditional Freudian interpretations with their Oedipal infrastructure (the death of Jerome\u27s father, etc.) the present work analyzes how the narrative of the genesis of the modernist writer is decisively mediated by stories about women and by feminine writing. In a sense, a mother\u27s story—that of Aunt Lucile—and her daughters\u27—that of Alissa—are two poles of the novel\u27s trajectory that traverses Jerome and constitutes him as a complexly gendered writing subject. Like Jerome, the novel is divided against itself on the question of the feminine. Indeed, the narrative\u27s simultaneous, contradictory appropriation and negation of the feminine (the incorporation of Alissa\u27s correspondence and the progressive elimination of all female characters except for Juliette) defines its fundamental structure as hysterical. This structure is the vehicle for the deployment of a complex fictional strategy by Gide whereby he constructs a presentation of familialism\u27s radical other: the bachelor writer whose possible homosexuality is approached asymptotically and negatively by the text through what are ultimately paranoiac figurations of other familial outcasts. These narrative figurations restore a discursive continuity to an otherwise fragmented modernist text, a continuity that is paradoxically none other than that of familial discourse

Frank Laney Roddey Papers - Accession 294

Frank Laney Roddey (1927-1979) was a South Carolina State Senator for District 6, Kershaw, Lancaster, and York counties. The Frank Laney Roddey Papers consist of correspondence, reports, committee records, press releases, minutes, memoranda, and other papers relating to his tenure in the South Carolina State Senate. Subjects include the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), tourism, the State Nuclear Advisory Council, higher education, banking, and insurance, and the Catawba Indians.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1322/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Cynthia Plair Roddey

In her four interviews with Cynthia Wilson on January 22, 1979, James D. Mackey on April 29, 1981, Paul Finkelstein on September 4, 1994, and Robert Ryals on September 12, 2012, Cynthia Roddey shares her experiences at Winthrop from 1964-1967. Roddey details the process of applying to Winthrop, the reaction she received from the Winthrop and Rock Hill community, and her participation in student life. Roddey includes her insight on race relations today and her hopes for the future. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1167/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Cynthia Plair Roddey - OH 644

In her interview with Robert Ryals on September 12, 2012, Cynthia Roddey shares her experiences at Winthrop from 1964-1967 as the first African American student admitted to Winthrop College. Roddey details the process of applying to Winthrop, the reaction she received from the Winthrop and Rock Hill community, and her participation in student life. Roddey includes her insight on race relations today and her hopes for the future. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1632/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Cynthia Plair Roddey - OH 643

In her interview with Paul Finkelstein on September 4, 1994, Cynthia Roddey shares her experiences at Winthrop from 1964-1967 as the first African American student admitted to Winthrop College. Roddey details the process of applying to Winthrop, the reaction she received from the Winthrop and Rock Hill community, and her participation in student life. Roddey includes her insight on race relations today and her hopes for the future. This interview was conducted for an article to be published in the Roddey-McMillan Record.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1631/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Cynthia Plair Roddey - OH 642

In her interview with James D. Mackey on April 29, 1981, Cynthia Roddey shares her experiences at Winthrop from 1964-1967 as the first African American student admitted to Winthrop College. Roddey details the process of applying to Winthrop, the reaction she received from the Winthrop and Rock Hill community, and her participation in student life. Roddey includes her insight on race relations today and her hopes for the future. This interview was conducted for a student history project.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1630/thumbnail.jp

Cynthia Harriet Plair Roddey Papers - Accession 937

The collection consists of one scrapbook of Cynthia Plair Roddey beginning in 1967, the year she began her studies at Winthrop University. There are also three diplomas included in the collection; one from Johnson C. Smith University, where Roddey received her Bachelor of Arts degree, one from then Winthrop College, where she received her Master of Arts in Teaching, and one from the Mid-Atlantic Seminary, where she received her degree of Doctor of Ministry. The scrapbook contains Roddey’s life history up to 1997. Within the scrapbook are copies of her high school diploma, college and university degrees, a copy of her birth certificate, awards and certificates, report cards, church programs, and newspaper articles.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1864/thumbnail.jp