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Journeys: A Critical Analysis Of The Diary Of Sarah L. Wadley, Regina C. Davis
Journeys: A Critical Analysis Of The Diary Of Sarah L. Wadley, Regina C. Davis
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
As a young woman living in Louisiana during the Civil War, Sarah Lois Wadley documented in her diary the fractured, conflicted perspective that was her experience as a woman living in the war ravaged South. Her writing is evidence of the confusion she felt as a result of the discrepancy between the expectations of Southern patriarchal society and her own needs as a woman. Wadley’s diary is a complex text similar to a novel in that it relates events through a construct that reflects her response to her reader’s/society’s expectations. From a deconstructionist perspective, the power of Wadley’s text lies …