Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781496806345
Subjects: Faulkner, william, 1897-1962; American literature, african american authors, history and criticism; Caribbean literature, history and criticism; Race in literature; African americans in literature
Description: "Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas explores relationships between Faulkner's literary oeuvre and 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, confluence, and reciprocal resonance between Faulkner and his black precursors, contemporaries, and successors in the Americas"--