Faulkner's geographies : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2011 / / edited by Jay Watson, Ann J. Abadie

• Pubblicazione: Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.52
• Soggetto topico: Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place); Geography in literature; Geographical perception in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): WatsonJay; AbadieAnn J.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Note on the Conference""; ""Local Places/Modern Spaces: The Crossroads Local in Faulkner""; ""Designing Spaces: Sutpen, Snopes, and the Promise of the Plantation""; """My New Orleans Gang": Faulkner's French Quarter Circle""; """No Kind of Place": New York City, Southernness, and Migratory Modernism""; ""Jamestown and Jimson Weed: Charting the Autochthonous Claim of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury""; ""South by Southwest: William Faulkner and Greater Mexico"" ; ""Thomas Sutpen's Geography Lesson: Environmental Obscurities and Racial Remapping in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!"" ""Faulkner's Caribbean Geographies in Absalom, Absalom!""; ""A Daughter's Geography: William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and a New Mapping of "The Black South"""; ""William Faulkner and the Problem of Cold War Modernism""; ""Woman in Motion: Escaping Yoknapatawpha""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: "The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature. The fictional domains of Yoknapatawpha County and Jefferson, Mississippi, are not simply imagined communities but imaginative geographies of remarkable complexity and detail, as evidenced by the maps Faulkner created of his "apocryphal" county. Exploring the diverse functions of space in Faulkner's artistic vision, the essays in Faulkner's Geographies delve deep into Yoknapatawpha but also reach beyond it, to uncover unsuspected connections and flows linking local, regional, national, hemispheric, and global geographies in Faulkner's writings. Individual contributors examine the influence of the plantation as a land-use regime on Faulkner's imagination of north Mississippi's geography; the emergence of "micro-Souths" as a product of modern migratory patterns in the urban North of Faulkner's fiction; the enlistment of the author's work in the geopolitics of the cultural Cold War during the 1950's; the historical and literary affiliations between Faulkner's Deep South and Greater Mexico; the local and idiosyncratic as alternatives to region and nation; the unique intersection of regional and metropolitan geographies that Faulkner encountered as a novice writer immersed in the literary culture of New Orleans; the uses of feminist geography to trace the interplay of gender, space, and movement; and the circulation of Caribbean and "Black South" spaces and itineraries through Faulkner's masterpiece, Absalom, Absalom! By bringing new attention to the function of space, place, mapping, and movement in his literature, Faulkner's Geographies seeks to redraw the very boundaries of Faulkner studies"--; "The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature. The fictional domains of Yoknapatawpha County and Jefferson, Mississippi, are not simply imagined communities but imaginative geographies of remarkable complexity and detail, as evidenced by the maps Faulkner created of his "apocryphal" county. Exploring the diverse functions of space in Faulkner's artistic vision, the eleven essays in Faulkner's Geographies delve deep into Yoknapatawpha but also reach beyond it, to uncover unsuspected connections and flows linking local, regional, national, hemispheric, and global geographies in Faulkner's writings. Individual contributions examine the influence of the plantation as a land-use regime on Faulkner's imagination of north Mississippi's geography; the emergence of "micro-Souths" as a product of modern migratory patterns in the urban North of Faulkner's fiction; the enlistment of the author's work in the geopolitics of the cultural Cold War during the 1950's; the historical and literary affiliations between Faulkner's Deep South and Greater Mexico; the local and idiosyncratic as alternatives to region and nation; the unique intersection of regional and metropolitan geographies that Faulkner encountered as a novice writer immersed in the literary culture of New Orleans; the uses of feminist geography to trace the interplay of gender, space, and movement; and the circulation of Caribbean and "Black South" spaces and itineraries through Faulkner's masterpiece, Absalom, Absalom! By bringing new attention to the function of space, place, mapping, and movement in his literature, Faulkner's Geographies seeks to redraw the very boundaries of Faulkner studies"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Faulkner's geographies
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792497903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha