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This 5 page paper discussed Clyde Edgerton's
successful novel Raney, as related to the family
structure theories of Minuchin, Bowen and Satir.
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File: D0_BBraney.doc.
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interviews /ClydeEdgerton.html). Few men have attempted to write using a womans voice. Those who do choose to use the persona of a woman often fail
in their effort, creating a character who does not quite sound authentic. Critics usually note the authors inadequacies and point out difficulties when an author tries to capture the voice
of a person of the opposite gender. One exception is Clyde Edgerton in his first novel, Raney. The voice of Raney seems genuine and Edgerton received great acclaim for his
novel. Clyde Edgerton In an interview with Thomas Kozikowski, Edgerton explains that he grew up amid a crowd of twenty-three aunts and uncles,
and the family gathered often for meals. While the uncles formed a taciturn group on the porch, the aunts filled the kitchen with lively conversation, gossip, and family stories. Edgerton
gravitated to the kitchen and listened eagerly to his convivial aunts. The characters Raney may not be a liberated, intellectual, politically-correct woman, but
she is a genuine, searching, struggling individual. She is human, complete with blind spots and inconsistencies, and so is her male counterpart, Charles, who just might flush a cabbage core
down the toilet, causing expensive plumbing problems. As
a character, Raney does seem authentic. While Raney is not an admirable woman -- she is a bigot, narrow-minded, and sexually repressed -- she does begin to grow and change
during the course of the novel. Her world is defined by family and tradition: church on Sunday, family dinner afterward, Southern food, Baptist religious beliefs, a distrust of those from
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