Global Faulkner: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006
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Körperschaft: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference < 2006, University of Mississippi> (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 a global context is helpful for recognizing the broader international meanings of Faulkner?s celebrated regional landscape. Several scholars address how the flow of capital from the time of slavery through the Cold War period in his fiction links Faulkner?s South with the larger world. Other authors
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ISBN:9781604733549
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