A Gathering of Evidence Essays on William Faulkner's 'Intruder in the Dust'

by Gresset, Michel; Samway, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780916101466
• ISBN10: 0916101460
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Summary

This book gathers together twelve recent and classic essays on Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, which he termed "a mystery-murder" whose theme concerns a "relationship between Negro and white, specifically or rather the premise being that the white people in the south, before the North or the govt. or anyone else, owe and must pay a responsibility to the Negro." These essays provide a rich set of resources to teachers who wish to assign this text, as well as to provide food for thought and discussion to individual readers and scholars of Faulkner.

Author Biography

Michel Gresset is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the Institut d'Anglais Charles V of the University Denis Diderot (Paris VII), the author of Fascination: Faulkner's Fiction, 1919-1936.

Patrick Samway, S.J., is Professor of English and Director of the Fellowships Office at Saint Joseph's University. Among his publications is Walker Percy: A Life and, co-edited with Michel Gresset, Faulkner and Ideology: Perspectives from Paris.

Table of Contents

List of Authors	vii
Introduction	ix
1 The Community in Action
Cleanth Brooks	1	(16)
2 Man on the Margin: Lucas Beauchamp and the Limitations of Space
Keith Clark	17	(20)
3 Eunice Habersham's Lessons in Intruder in the Dust
Ikuko Fujihira	37	(20)
4 Teaching Intruder in the Dust Through Its Political and Historical Context"
Robert W Hamblin	57	(18)
5 Race Fantasies: The Filming of Intruder in the Dust
Charles Hannon	75	(22)
6 Negotiating the National Voice in Faulkner's Late Work
Joe Karaganis	97	(34)
7 Faulkner's Comic Narrative of Community
Donald M. Kartiganer	131	(20)
8 Contextualizing Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust: Sherlock Holmes, Chick Mallison, Decolonization, and Change
Richard C. Moreland	151	(16)
9 Man in the Middle: Faulkner and the Southern White Moderate
Noel Polk	167	(22)
10 Intruder in the Dust: A Re-evaluation
Patrick Samway, S.J	189	(36)
11 Faulkner and the Post-Confederate
Neil Schmitz	225	(22)
12 "The Sum of Your Ancestry": Cultural Context and Intruder in the Dust
Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber	247	(12)
Permissions	259