The Defector concerns Rosalind, a historian who discovers that her body will not take her to work. Rosalind's "defection" from society is physical, emotional, political and spiritual. Marons courage lies in her will to see and to purge the materialism, the conformism and the emotional timidity that impede her heroine's voyage tot he limits of freedom.
The Defector concerns Rosalind, a historian who discovers that her body will not take her to work. Rosalind's "defection" from society is physical, emotional, political and spiritual. Marons courage lies in her will to see and to purge the materialism, the conformism and the emotional timidity that impede her heroine's voyage tot he limits of freedom.