Title: The new Cambridge companion to William Faulkner /
Authors: Matthews, John T.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Faulkner, William, Criticism and interpretation.; Faulkner, William,; Faulkner, William; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.; Literature; Southern States In literature.; Southern States
Abstract: "The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways of imagining sexual identity and behavior, the South's history as a plantation economy and society, and the persistent effects of traumatic cultural and personal experience. This new Companion provides an introduction to the innovative ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents: 1. New media ecology / Julian Murphet -- 2. History's dark markings: Faulkner and film's racial representation / Peter Lurie -- 3. 'What moves at the margin': William Faulkner and race / Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman -- 4. Faulkner and biopolitics / Patricia E. Chu -- 5. As I Lay Dying and the modern aesthetics of ecological crisis / Susan Scott Parrish -- 6. Faulkner and trauma: on Sanctuary's originality / Greg Forter -- 7. Queer Faulkner: whores, queers, and the transgressive south / Jaime Harker -- 8. Faulkner and southern studies / Melanie Benson Taylor -- 9. The Faulkner factor: influence and intertextuality in southern fiction since 1965 / Martyn Bone -- 10. They endured: the Faulknerian novel and post-45 American fiction / Benjamin Widiss --11. A new region of the world: Faulkner, Glissant, and the Caribbean / Hugues Azerad -- 12. The Faulknerian anthropocene: scales of time and history in The Wild Palms and Go Down, Moses / Ramón Saldívar and Sylvan Goldberg -- 13. Reading Faulkner in and beyond postcolonial studies: 'There is nowhere for us to go now but east' / Randy Boyagoda.