Faulkner and whiteness / edited by Jay Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people in literature.

Race in literature.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

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

Faulkner, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the South. Throughout the writer's career, racial paradigms were in flux, and these shifting notions are reflected in his prose. This book explores the ways in which Faulkner's fiction addresses and destabilises the concept of whiteness in American culture. It places Faulkner's oeuvre - and scholarly views of it - in the contexts of its contemporary literature and academic trends exploring race and texts.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62103-320-1

1-283-11663-4

9786613116635

1-61703-021-X

OCLC:

729166776