Title: Fictions of Labor
First published: 1997
Description: Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labor dependency in the southern economy from the antebellum period through the New Deal. Linking the occlusive stylistics of Faulkner's writings to a generative social trauma that constitutes its formal core, Richard Godden argues that this trauma is a labor trauma, centered on the debilitating discovery by the southern owning class of its own production by those it subordinates.

By way of close textual analysis and careful historical contextualization, Fictions of Labor produces a persuasive account of the ways in which Faulkner's work rests on deeply submerged anxieties about the legacy of violently coercive labor relations in the American South.
Subjects: Historiography, African Americans in literature, Industrial relations, Literature and society, Political and social views, Race relations in literature, Labor supply, In literature, Working class, History, Arbeid, American, LITERARY CRITICISM, Literature, General, Rassenverhoudingen, Faulkner, william, 1897-1962, Industrial relations, southern states, Labor supply, united states, Southern states, in literature, Working class, united states
Places: Southern States
People: William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3511.A86 Z7834 1997