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New essays on Go down, Moses / edited by Linda Wagner-Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American Novel.
- The American novel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Go down, Moses.
- Faulkner, William.
- African American women in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 159 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the Second World War, was written during one of Faulkner's most traumatic periods, and has fallen to critical neglect amid the vast scholarship on the great Southern writer. In part, this collection aims to tilt the balance, forcing the reader beyond critical commonplaces through asking challenging questions. The five essays assembled here explore the tensions of race and gender apparent throughout the novel. Judith Sensibar approaches the work through Faulkner's relationship with Caroline Barr, the black woman who was his primary caretaker in life; Judith Wittenberg offers an ecological reading; John T. Matthews redefines the novel as a 'Southern' experience; Minrose Gwin focuses on the spaces in the text occupied by black women characters; and Thadious M. Davis charts further complications of the black-white relationships that lie at the heart of the novel.
- Contents:
- Touching race in Go down, Moses / John T. Matthews
- Go down, Moses and the discourse of environmentalism / Judith Bryant Wittenberg
- Her shape, his hand: the spaces of African American women in Go down, Moses / Minrose Gwin
- Who wears the mask? Memory, desire, and race in Go down, Moses / Judith L. Sensibar
- The Game of courts: Go down, Moses, arbitrary legalities, and compensatory boundaries / Thadious M. Davis.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159).
- ISBN:
- 0-511-88471-0
- 0-511-62456-5
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