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.
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.
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.
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