Faulkner and the black literatures of the Americas : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2013 / edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, Jr.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Watson, Jay, editor.

Thomas, James G., Jr., editor.

Conference Name:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (40th : 2013 : University of Mississippi)

Series:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha (Series)

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Faulkner, William.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Influence--Congresses.

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.

Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)--Congresses.

Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place).

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

American literature.

Caribbean literature (English)--Black authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

Caribbean literature (English).

African Americans in literature--Congresses.

African Americans in literature.

Race in literature--Congresses.

Race in literature.

Authors, Black.

American literature--African American authors.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]

Summary:

"Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas explores relationships between Faulkner's literary oeuvre and a hemispheric canon of black writing from the U.S. and the Caribbean. The volume's seventeen essays and poetry selections chart lines of engagement, dialogue, confluence, and reciprocal resonance between Faulkner and his black precursors, contemporaries, and successors in the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Jay Watson

African American Poetic Responses to Faulkner / Chiyuma Elliott, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Derrick Harriell, Randall Horton, Jamaal May

The Street Ran through Cities: Faulkner and the Early African American Migration Narrative / James Smethurst

Lingering in the Black: Faulkner's Illegible Modernist Sound Melding / Thadious M. Davis

Tracking Faulkner in the Paths of Black Modernism / George Hutchinson

Miscegenation and Progression: The First Americans of Jean Toomer and William Faulkner / Andrew B. Leiter

"Go to Jail about This Spoonful": Narcotic Determinism and Human Agency in "That Evening Sun" and "A Spoonful Blues" / Tim A. Ryan

Narrative Leaps to Universal Appeal in McKay's Banjo and Faulkner's A Fable / Dotty Dye

Reconstructions: Faulkner and Du Bois on the Civil War / T. Austin Graham

The President Has Asked Me: Faulkner, Ellison, and Public Intellectualism / Joseph Fruscione

Dangerous Quests: Transgressive Sexualities in William Faulkner's The Wild Palm and James Baldwin's Another Country / Ben Robbins

From Yoknapatawpha County to St. Raphael Parish: Faulknerian Influence on the Works of Ernest J. Gaines / John Wharton Lowe

For Fear of a Scandal: Sexual Policing and the Preservation of Colonial Relations in William Faulkner and Marie Vieux-Chauvet / Jenna Sciuto

In the Book of the Dead, the Narrator Is the Self: Edwidge Danticats The Dew Breaker as a Response to Faulkner's Haiti in Absalom, Absalom! / Sharron Eve Sarthou

Contemporary Black Writing and Southern Social Belonging: Beyond the Faulknerian Shadow of Loss / Lisa Hinrichsen

"It Was Enough That the Name Was Written": Ledger Narratives in Edward P. Jones's The Known World and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses / Matthew Dischinger

Morrison's Return to Faulkner: A Mercy and Absalom, Absalom! / Doreen Fowler

Natasha Trethewey's Joe Christmas and the Reconstruction of Mississippi Nativity / Ted Atkinson.

Notes:

Papers presented at the fortieth Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, sponsored by the University of Mississippi, held from July 21-25, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (40th : 2013 : University of Mississippi). Faulkner and the black literatures of the Americas.

ISBN:

9781496806345

1496806344

1496806360

9781496806369

1496806352

9781496806352

1496806379

9781496806376

1496806387

9781496806383

OCLC:

930257164

Publisher Number:

99967803254

Online:

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