"First printing 2019." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Annette Trefzer and Jay Watson -- Note on the Conference -- Faulkner didn't invent Yoknapatawpha, everybody knows that. So what other stories do Chickasaws and Choctaws know about our homelands? / LeAnne Howe -- Souths as prologues: Indigeneity, race, and the temporalities of land; or, Why I can't read William Faulkner / Jodi A. Byrd -- Doom and deliverance: Faulkner's dialectical Indians / Melanie Benson Taylor -- "Land! Hold on! Just hold on!": flood waters, hard times, and sacred land in "Old man" and My Louisiana Love / Gina Caison -- Dressing the part: evolution of Indian dress in Faulkner / Patricia Galloway -- "A valid signature": Native American sovereignty in Requiem for a Nun / Annette Trefzer -- "Brother: is this truth?": history, fiction, and colonialism in Faulkner's Mississippi / Katherine M.B. Osburn -- The wild and the tame: Sam Fathers as ecological Indian / Robbie Ethridge -- Native Southern transformations, or, Light in August and werewolves / Eric Gary Anderson -- From the mausoleum to a spider web: William Faulkner's and Louise Erdrich's takes on hybridity / Melanie R. Anderson -- Red laughter: humor in Faulkner's native narratives / John Wharton Lowe.
Summary:
"From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching implications of Faulkner's fictional place-name 'Yoknapatawpha' to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding of Faulkner's fiction (including but not limited to the novels and stories he devoted explicitly to Native American topics), the eleven essays of this volume advance the critical analysis of Faulkner's Native South and the Native South's Faulkner. Critics push beyond assessments of the historical accuracy of his Native representations and the colonial hybridity of his Indian characters. Essayists turn instead to indigenous intellectual culture for new models, problems, and questions to bring to Faulkner studies. Along the way, readers are treated to illuminating comparisons between Faulkner's writings and the work of a number of Native American authors, filmmakers, tribal leaders, and historical figures. Faulkner and the Native South brings together Native and non-Native scholars in a stimulating and oft en surprising critical dialogue about the indigenous wellsprings of Faulkner's creative energies and about Faulkner's own complicated presence in Native American literary history."--Provided by publisher.
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