Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Jay Watson, Ann J. Abadie, Jay Watson, Ann J. Abadie

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781496813121
• eBook ISBN: 9781496802286
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Essays
• Index: Literature

The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature. The fictional domains of Yoknapatawpha County and Jefferson, Mississippi, are not simply imagined communities but imaginative geographies of remarkable complexity and detail, as evidenced by the maps Faulkner created of his "apocryphal" county. Exploring the diverse functions of space in Faulkner's artistic vision, the eleven essays in Faulkner's Geographies delve deep into Yoknapatawpha but also reach beyond it to uncover unsuspected connections and flows linking local, regional, national, hemispheric, and global geographies in Faulkner's writings. Individual contributions examine the influence of the plantation as a land-use regime on Faulkner's imagination of north Mississippi's geography; the emergence of "micro-Souths" as a product of modern migratory patterns in the urban North of Faulkner's fiction; the enlistment of the author's work in the geopolitics of the cultural Cold War during the 1950s; the historical and literary affiliations between Faulkner's Deep South and Greater Mexico; the local and idiosyncratic as alternatives to region and nation; the unique intersection of regional and metropolitan geographies that Faulkner encountered as a novice writer immersed in the literary culture of New Orleans; the uses of feminist geography to trace the interplay of gender, space, and movement; and the circulation of Caribbean and "Black South" spaces and itineraries through Faulkner's masterpiece, Absalom, Absalom! By bringing new attention to the function of space, place, mapping, and movement in his literature, Faulkner's Geographies seeks to redraw the very boundaries of Faulkner studies.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)

“Address to the Delta Council” (Faulkner)

African Americans

Agamben, Giorgio

Aguiar, Marian

Aiken, Charles S.

Akers (Faulkner character)

Albrizio, Conrad

Allanovna, Myra

Allen, Gay Wilson

Allen, Theodore

Allende, Isabel

American Indian Literary Nationalism (Weaver, Warrior, and Womack)

Anderson, Bob

Anderson, Elizabeth Prall

Anderson, Sherwood

Anderson, Tom

Angleton, James Jesus

Antony, Lucille Godchaux

Antony, Marc

Appadurai, Arjun

Architect, French. See French architect

Arnold, Aunt Rose

Arriaga, Guillermo

Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans

As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)

Bacon, Nathaniel

Bacon’s Rebellion

Baker, Houston A.

Bakhtin, Mikhail

Baldwin, James

Baraka, Amiri

“Barn Burning” (Faulkner)

Basso, Hamilton

“Bear, The” (Faulkner)

Beauchamp, Lucas

Beauchamp, Samuel

Belkin County, Texas

Beloved (Morrison)

Benbow, Narcissa

Berkeley, Richard

Berkeley, William

Berkeley Hundred

Beverley, Robert

Bhabha, Homi

Birdsong

Bishop, Elizabeth

Black, Miss Kingsley

Black Haiti: A Biography of Africa’s Eldest Daughter (Nile)

Black Majesty (Vandercook)

Blake; or the Huts of America (Delany)

Blassingame, John

Blood Meridian (McCarthy)

Bloom, Harold

Blotner, Joseph

“Bocas: A Daughter’s Geography” (Shange)

Bon, Charles

Bon, Eulalia

Bond, Jim

Bongie, Chris

Boyer, Jean Pierre

Bradford, Roark

Breit, Harvey

Brodber, Erna

Brooker, Peter

Buck, Pearl

Buck-Morrs, Susan

Buenrostro, Rafe

Bundren, Addie

Bundren, Anse

Bundren, Dewey Dell

Burch, Lucas

Burden, Calvin (elder)

Burden, Calvin (younger)

Burden, Joanna

Burdick, Eugene

Busby, Mark

Byrd, Jodi

Caldwell, Erskine

Cane (Toomer)

Cantwell, Robert

Carby, Hazel

Caribbean

writers Faulkner influenced

Carlson, Jerry W.

Carmer, Betty

Carmer, Carl

Carollo, Sylvestro “Silver Dollar Sam”

Carothers, J...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Note on the Conference
• Local Places/Modern Spaces: The Crossroads Local in Faulkner
• Designing Spaces: Sutpen, Snopes, and the Promise of the Plantation
• “My New Orleans Gang”: Faulkner’s French Quarter Circle
• “No Kind of Place”: New York City, Southernness, and Migratory Modernism
• Jamestown and Jimson Weed: Charting the Autochthonous Claim of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
• South by Southwest: William Faulkner and Greater Mexico
• Thomas Sutpen’s Geography Lesson: Environmental Obscurities and Racial Remapping in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
• Faulkner’s Caribbean Geographies in Absalom, Absalom!
• A Daughter’s Geography: William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and a New Mapping of “The Black South”
• William Faulkner and the Problem of Cold War Modernism
• Woman in Motion: Escaping Yoknapatawpha
• Contributors
• Index