Faulkner and slavery

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Title
"Faulkner and slavery"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, Jr
Publisher
  • University Press of Mississippi
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Notes

Includes index

Summary: "Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B. Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner, Stephanie Rountree, Julia Stern, Jay Watson, and Randall Wilhelm. In 1930, the same year he moved into Rowan Oak, a slave-built former plantation home in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, William Faulkner published his first work of fiction that gave serious attention to the experience and perspective of an enslaved individual. For the next two decades, Faulkner repeatedly returned to the theme of slavery and to the figures of enslaved people in his fiction, probing the racial, economic, and political contours of his region, nation, and hemisphere in work such as The Sound and the Fury; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; and Go Down, Moses. Faulkner and Slavery is the first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century's

"The Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference, sponsored by the University of Mississippi in Oxford, took place Sunday, July 22, through Thursday, July 26, 2018"--P. xxix

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