Global Faulkner : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006 /

Today, debates about globalization raise both hopes and fears. But what about during William Faulkner?s time? Was he aware of worldwide cultural, historical, and economic developments? Just how interested was Faulkner in the global scheme of things?. The contributors to Global Faulkner suggest that...

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Corporate Author: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference University of Mississippi
Other Authors: Trefzer, Annette, 1960- (Editor), Abadie, Ann J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009
Series:Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Annette Trefzer
  • Note on the conference
  • Many mansions: Faulkner's Cold War conflicts / John T. Matthews
  • From colony to empire: postmodern Faulkner / Leigh Anne Duck
  • The fetish of surplus value; or, What the ledgers say / Melanie R. Benson
  • On the tragedies and comedies of the new world Faulkner / George B. Handley
  • Blood on the leaves, blood at the root: ritual carriers and sacrificial crises of transition in Yoknapatawpha and Oyo / Keith Cartwright
  • Reading Faulkner in Spain, reading Spain in Faulkner / Manuel Broncano
  • The global/local nexus of patriarchy: Japanese writers encounter Faulkner / Takako Tanaka
  • Artificial women, the Pygmalion paradigm, and Faulkner's Gordon in Mosquitoes / Mario Materassi
  • Almost feminine, almost brother, almost Southern: the transnational queer figure of Charles Bon in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Elizabeth Steeby
  • Fear of a black Atlantic? African passages in Absalom, Absalom! and The last slaver / Jeff Karem
  • Faulkner and me / Tierno Monénembo.