The Making of a Writer: Tennessee Williams’s Early Short Fiction
Tennessee Williams wrote many short stories early in his career during the 1930s. In recent years as these stories are published, they reveal aspects of the author’s personal life and his relationship to St. Louis, the city of his youth. They also reflect the proletarian fiction movement of the Grea...
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2026
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Tennessee Williams wrote many short stories early in his career during the 1930s. In recent years as these stories are published, they reveal aspects of the author’s personal life and his relationship to St. Louis, the city of his youth. They also reflect the proletarian fiction movement of the Great Depression and the influence of leftist politics. Many of Williams’s early stories address sexuality in heteronormative terms and reflect a struggle with sex through relationships that are transgressive or confusing to the characters involved. Stories also take up themes of death and dying. Williams included younger characters who consider suicide, and older characters who confront illness and incapacity. The early short stories by Tennessee Williams sometimes prefigure characters or themes eventually developed in major works, but also introduce original ideas and situations, all of which add significantly to an understanding of the American dramatist. |
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