Global Faulkner : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006.
Title:
Global Faulkner : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006.
Author:
Benson, Melanie R.
ISBN:
9781604733549
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (211 pages)
Series:
Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Conference -- Many Mansions: Faulkner's Cold War Conflicts -- From Colony to Empire: Postmodern Faulkner -- The Fetish of Surplus Value -- or, What the Ledgers Say -- On the Tragedies and Comedies of the New World Faulkner -- Blood on the Leaves, Blood at the Root: Ritual Carriers and Sacrificial Crises of Transition in Yoknapatawpha and Oyo -- Reading Faulkner in Spain, Reading Spain in Faulkner -- The Global/Local Nexus of Patriarchy: Japanese Writers Encounter Faulkner -- Artificial Women, the Pygmalion Paradigm, and Faulkner's Gordon in Mosquitoes -- Almost Feminine, Almost Brother, Almost Southern: The Transnational Queer Figure of Charles Bon in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! -- Fear of a Black Atlantic? African Passages in Absalom, Absalom! and The Last Slaver -- Faulkner and Me -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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 explore the literary similarities that connect Faulkner?s South to Latin America, Africa, Spain, Japan, and the Caribbean. In essays by scholars from around the world, Faulkner emerges in trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific contexts, in a pan-Caribbean world, and in the space of the Middle Passage and the African Atlantic. The Nobel laureate?s fiction is linked to that of such writers as Gabriel García Márquez, Wole Soyinka, Miguel de Cervantes, and Kenji Nakagami.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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