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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789866703321

Autore

Towner Theresa M

Titolo

Faulkner on the color line [[electronic resource] ] : the later novels / / Theresa M. Towner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2000

ISBN

1-283-03117-5

9786613031174

1-61703-096-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Race relations in literature

Race in literature

African Americans in literature

Literature and society - Southern States - History - 20th century

Literary form - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-172) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: FLESH AND THE PENCIL: Racial Identity and the Search for Form; Chapter 2: ""HOW CAN A BLACK MAN ASK?"": Orality, Race, and Identity; Chapter 3: FINDING SOMEBODY TO TALK TO: Detection, Confession, and the Color Line; Chapter 4: SNOPES WATCHING AND RACIAL IDEOLOGY; Chapter 5: RACE AND THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

A study of William Faulkner's final phase as a period in which he faced up to America's rigid protocols of racial ideology. This study argues that Faulkner's writings about racial matters interrogated rather than validated his racial beliefs and that, in the process of questioning his own ideology, his fictional forms extended his reach as an artist. After winning the Nobel Prize in 1950, Faulkner wrote what critics term ""his later novels."" These have been almost uniformly dismissed, with the prevailing view being that as he became a more public figure, his fiction became a platform rather t