Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Part 1. William Faulkner and Caroline "Callie" Barr -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Caroline Barr in Black and White Voices -- 2. Caroline Barr's Origins -- 3. Negotiating the "Mammy" Tradition: Callie Barr as "Second Mother" -- 4. Callie Barr and Maud Falkner -- 5. Caroline Barr and Faulkner's Poetics: Go Down, Moses -- 6. Family Secrets: "Mississippi" -- Part 2. Faulkner's Mother, Maud Butler Falkner -- INTRODUCTION -- 7. Maud's Mysterious Ancestry -- 8. Willie Falkner's Childhood World, 1896-1907 -- 9. From Honor Roll to Truancy, 1907-1914 -- 10. Choosing Roles and Role Models -- 11. Learning to Speak with His Eyes -- 12. Reading Faulkner's "Mothers" -- Parts 3, 4, and 5. William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 3. Estelle and Billy, 1903-1914 -- 13. Estelle Oldham's Mississippi Frontier Family -- 14. Kosciusko Childhood, Southern Belledom, and Estelle's Fictional Memoir, 1897-1903 -- 15. Billy Falkner and Estelle Oldham, Oxford, 1903-1914 -- Part 4. First Loves, First "Marriages," 1914-1926 -- 16. Shifting Alliances, 1914-1918 -- 17. The Oldham-Franklin Wedding, April 1918 -- 18. Marriage in the "Crossroads of the Pacific," June-September 1918 -- 19. An Army Wife, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, September 1918-May 1919 -- 20. Stolen Interludes, 1919 and 1921 -- 21. The Marketing of Estelle and Her Rebellion -- Part 5. The Emergence of a Mature Novelist -- 22. Estelle's Shanghai Sojourn, 1922-1924 -- 23. Collaborating with Estelle, Oxford, 1924-1925 -- 24. Faulkner's Other Collaboration, New Orleans, 1924 and 1925 -- 25. The Sound and the Fury and Its Aftermath, 1925-1933 -- 26. Faulkner's Suppressed Tributes to Estelle, 1933-1935 -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K.

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