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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955136303321

Titolo

Global Faulkner / / Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2006 ; edited by Annette Trefzer and Ann J. Abadie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, 2009

ISBN

1-282-48557-1

9786612485572

1-60473-354-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha

Altri autori (Persone)

TrefzerAnnette <1960->

AbadieAnn J

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Literature and globalization

Regionalism in literature

Comparative literature

Modernism (Literature)

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Annette Trefzer -- Note on the conference -- Many mansions: Faulkner's Cold War conflicts / John T. Matthews -- From colony to empire: postmodern Faulkner / Leigh Anne Duck -- The fetish of surplus value; or, What the ledgers say / Melanie R. Benson -- On the tragedies and comedies of the new world Faulkner / George B. Handley -- Blood on the leaves, blood at the root: ritual carriers and sacrificial crises of transition in Yoknapatawpha and Oyo / Keith Cartwright -- Reading Faulkner in Spain, reading Spain in Faulkner / Manuel Broncano -- The global/local nexus of patriarchy: Japanese writers encounter Faulkner / Takako Tanaka -- Artificial women, the Pygmalion paradigm, and Faulkner's Gordon in Mosquitoes / Mario Materassi -- Almost feminine, almost brother, almost Southern: the transnational queer figure of Charles Bon in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Elizabeth Steeby -- Fear of a black Atlantic? African passages in Absalom, Absalom! and The last slaver / Jeff Karem -- Faulkner and me / Tierno Monenembo.

Sommario/riassunto

Today, debates about globalisation raise both hopes and fears. But



what about during William Faulkner's time? Was Faulkner aware of worldwide cultural, historical, and economic developments? Just how interested was he in the global scheme of things? The contributors to this book suggest that a global context is helpful for recognising the broader international meanings of Faulkner's celebrated regional landscape.