Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century

by Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (27th : 2000 : University of Mississippi); Abadie, Ann J.; Hamblin, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9781578065134
• ISBN10: 1578065135
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Where will the study of William Faulkner's writings take scholars in the new century? What critical roads remain unexplored? sFaulkner in the Twenty-First Century presents the thoughts of ten noted Faulkner scholars who spoke at the twenty-seventh annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi. Theresa M. Towner attacks the traditional classification of Faulkner's works as "major" and "minor" and argues that this causes the neglect of other significant works and characters. Michael Kreyling uses photographs of Faulkner to analyze the interrelationships of Faulkner's texts with the politics and culture of Mississippi.

Author Biography

Robert W. Hamblin is a professor of English and the director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. Ann J. Abadie is associate director at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Robert W. Hamblin
A Note on the Conference	xvii
Opening Remarks	xix
Donald M. Kartiganer
The Roster, the Chronicle, and the Critic	1	(13)
Theresa M. Towner
Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century: Boundaries of Meaning, Boundaries of Mississippi	14	(17)
Michael Kreyling
William Faulkner, Edouard Glissant, and a Creole Poetics of History and Body in Absalom, Absalom! and A Fable	31	(19)
Barbara Ladd
Faulkner and Spanish America: Then and Now	50	(18)
Deborah N. Cohn
Postcolonial Displacements in Faulkner's Indian Stories of the 1930s	68	(21)
Annette Trefzer
Haunting Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner and Traumatic Memory	89	(18)
Leigh Anne Duck
Faulkner's Future Tense: A Critique of the Instant and the Continuum	107	(12)
Patrick O'Donnell
Lucas Beauchamp's Choices	119	(18)
Karl F. Zender
Absalom, Absalom!: The Difference between White Men and White Men	137	(17)
Walter Benn Michaels
Beyond the Edge of the Map: Faulkner, Turner, and the Frontier Line	154	(18)
Robert W. Hamblin
Contributors	172	(3)
Index	175