Faulkner and Hurston
By: edited by Christopher Rieger and Andrew B. Leiter
Contributors: Southeast Missouri State University. Center for Faulkner Studies. Conference
Series: Southeast's Faulkner Conference series -- volume 5; Southeast's Faulkner Conference series -- v. 5.
Publisher: published for the Center for Faulkner Studies by Southeast Missouri State University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Cape Girardeau, MO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780997926217
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism and interpretation
Description: Faulkner and Hurston is a collection of literary criticism from the 2014 Faulkner/Hurston Conference at Southeast Missouri State University. Faulkner and Hurston is Volume Five in Southeast's Faulkner Conference Series.
Notes: On October 23-25, 2014, Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies hosted "Faulkner and Hurston," a conference devoted to the writings of William Faulkner and Zora Neale Hurston. The conference featured presentations by thirty-nine scholars representing seventeen different American states and four foreign countries (China, Nigeria, Japan, and Taiwan). -- Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Backwoods Modernism: Primitive Portraiture in Faulkner and Hurston / John Lowe; title: Screwball Curves and Blues Licks: Hollywood Comedy and African American Music in Hurston and Faulkner / Tim A. Ryan; title: Performing Southernness in Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and Hurston's "Dust Tracks on a Road" / Patricia Bradley; title: Telling the White Man: Decoding the Gendered Blues and Domestic Violence in Hurston's "Sweat" and Faulkner's "That Evening Sun" / Ren Denton; title: "You got tuh go there tuh know there": Reading, Race, Gender, and the "Womanshenegro" in the Novels of Faulkner and Hurston / Eden Wales Freedman; title: Neither Separate Nor Equal: Not-so Tragic Mulattos in Faulkner's "Light in August" and Hurston's "Jonah's Gourd Vine / Christopher Rieger; title: To Live a "Black" Life: Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as Source for Faulkner's "The Wild Palms" / Andrew B. Leiter; title: Faulkern's "As I Lay Dying" and Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God": An Ecofeminist Reading / Shinya Matsuoka; title: Language and the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and Historical Allegory in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" / John B. Padgett; title: Interrogating Space: The Country Store in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" and Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" / Sidonia Serafini; title: Faulkner, "Cathay," and Questions of Global Imperialism / Eiko Owanda; title: Old Boundaries and New Orders: Contemporary Novelists and Faulkner's Dysfunctional Families / Terrell Tebbetts.