Faulkner and whiteness / edited by Jay Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

White people in literature.

Race in literature.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

White people--Race identity.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction: situating whiteness in Faulkner studies, situating Faulkner in whiteness studies / Jay Watson

Negotiating the marble bonds of whiteness: hybridity and imperial impulse in Faulkner / Taylor Hagood

Genealogies of white deviance: the eugenic family studies, Buck v. Bell, and William Faulkner, 1926-1931 / Jay Watson

Queering whiteness, queering Faulkner: Hightower's "Wild bulges" / Alfred J. Lcentpez

Passing as miscegenation: whiteness and homoeroticism in Faulkner's Absalom, absalom! / Betina Entzminger

"A strange nigger": Faulkner and the minstrel performance of whiteness / John N. Duvall

Moonshine and magnolias: the story of Temple Drake and the birth of a nation / Deborah Barker

Inside and outside southern whiteness: film viewing, the frame, and the racing of space in Yoknapatawpha / Peter Lurie

White disavowal, black enfranchisement, and the homoerotic in William Faulkner's Light in August / Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman

American emergencies: whiteness, the National Guard, and Light in August / Chuck Jackson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.

ISBN:

1617030201

9781617030208

9781617030215

161703021X

OCLC:

679919067

Publisher Number:

99943986677