Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas
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Abstract
At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist and critic Édouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that “Faulkner’s oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African Americans,” a goal that “will be achieved by a radically ‘other’ reading.” In the spirit of Glissant’s prediction, Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas places William Faulkner’s literary oeuvre in dialogue with a hemispheric canon of black writing from the U.S. and the Caribbean. The volume’s seventeen essays and poetry selections chart lines of engagement, dialogue, and reciprocal resonance between Faulkner and his black precursors, contemporaries, and successors in the Americas. Contributors place Faulkner’s work in reciprocally illuminating conversation with writings by Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Randall Kenan, Edward P. Jones, and Natasha Trethewey, and with the musical artistry of Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton. In addition, a quintet of emerging African American poets offer their own creative responses to Faulkner’s writings, characters, verbal art, and historical example. In these ways, Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas develops a comparative approach to the Faulkner oeuvre that goes beyond the compelling but also limiting question of influence—who read whom, whose works draw from whose—to explore the confluences between Faulkner and black writing in the hemisphere: the common questions framed in their bodies of work, the responses to common problems, precursors, and events.
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Front Matter
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African American Poetic Responses to Faulkner
Chiyuma Elliott and others
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The Street Ran through Cities: Faulkner and the Early African American Migration Narrative
James Smethurst andJay Watson
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Lingering in the Black: Faulkner’s Illegible Modernist Sound Melding
Thadious M. Davis andJay Watson
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Tracking Faulkner in the Paths of Black Modernism
George Hutchinson andJay Watson
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Miscegenation and Progression: The First Americans of Jean Toomer and William Faulkner
Andrew B. Leiter andJay Watson
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“Go to Jail about This Spoonful”: Narcotic Determinism and Human Agency in “That Evening Sun” and “A Spoonful Blues”
Tim A. Ryan andJay Watson
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Narrative Leaps to Universal Appeal in McKay’s Banjo and Faulkner’s A Fable
Dotty Dye andJay Watson
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Reconstructions: Faulkner and Du Bois on the Civil War
T. Austin Graham andJay Watson
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“The President Has Asked Me”: Faulkner, Ellison, and Public Intellectualism
Joseph Fruscione andJay Watson
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Dangerous Quests: Transgressive Sexualities in William Faulkner’s “The Wild Palms” and James Baldwin’s Another Country
Ben Robbins andJay Watson
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From Yoknapatawpha County to St. Raphael Parish: Faulknerian Influence on the Works of Ernest J. Gaines
John Wharton Lowe andJay Watson
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“For Fear of a Scandal”: Sexual Policing and the Preservation of Colonial Relations in William Faulkner and Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Jenna Sciuto andJay Watson
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In the Book of the Dead, the Narrator Is the Self: Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker as a Response to Faulkner’s Haiti in Absalom, Absalom!
Sharron Eve Sarthou andJay Watson
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Contemporary Black Writing and Southern Social Belonging: Beyond the Faulknerian Shadow of Loss
Lisa Hinrichsen andJay Watson
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“It Was Enough That the Name Was Written”: Ledger Narratives in Edward P. Jones’s The Known World and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses
Matthew Dischinger andJay Watson
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Morrison’s Return to Faulkner: A Mercy and Absalom, Absalom!
Doreen Fowler andJay Watson
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Natasha Trethewey’s Joe Christmas and the Reconstruction of Mississippi Nativity
Ted Atkinson andJay Watson
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End Matter
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