Recently added articles from The Faulkner Journal:
BEYOND SILENCE AND REALISM: TRAUMA AND THE FUNCTION OF GHOSTS IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND BELOVED
Apr 01, 2008; ... If we can agree that human slavery, as it was practiced in the United States and the Caribbean, paradoxically shares with the Holocaust a unique status, a quality of being particularly atrocious beyond the realm of realistic or rational representation, we might be tempted to speak nothing but ...
RACIAL MIXTURE, RACIAL PASSING, AND WHITE SUBJECTIVITY IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
Apr 01, 2008; ... In his 1987 study of the critical reception of Absalom, Absalom! Bernd Engler points out that "since the mid-Seventies the only interpretations to gain favour have been those which, at least partly, regard Absalom, Absalom! as the conscious realization of an open work of art" (246). Somewhat ...
TERRORIZING WHITENESS IN YOKNAPATAWPHA COUNTY
Apr 01, 2008; ... In Absalom, Absalom! Quentin Compson's epiphany that Clytie "owns the terror" (295) is a white conceptualization: to white (and terrified) Quentin, Clytie embodies the fears of race-mixture that characterize any white supremacist society, certainly the pre-Civil Rights-era South. Quentin, though ...
TEXTS, CONTEXTS . . . AND A CURIOUS LACUNA
Apr 01, 2008; ... TEXTS, CONTEXTS . . . AND A CURIOUS LACUNA Review of Charles Hannon, Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005. xii +195 pp.; Peter Lurie, Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. xvi + 237 pp.; Owen ...
REMEMBERING AUNT CALLIE AND MR. WILLIAM
Apr 01, 2008; ... Rachel Barr McGee's father, Ed Barr, was the brother of William Faulkner's beloved "Mammy Callie." In August 2005, the ninety-threeyear-old Mrs. McGee shared with writer Ginger Rue her memories of life in Oxford, Mississippi with her Aunt Callie and "Mr. William." GR: What are your ...
Racial mixture, racial passing, and white subjectivity in Absalom, Absalom!(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... In his 1987 study of the critical reception of Absalom, Absalom! Bernd Engler points out that "since the mid-Seventies the only interpretations to gain favour have been those which, at least partly, regard Absalom, Absalom! as the conscious realization of an open work of art" (246) ....
Terrorizing whiteness in Yoknapatawpha County.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... In Absalom, Absalom! Quentin Compson's epiphany that Clytie "owns the terror" (295) is a white conceptualization: to white (and terrified) Quentin, Clytie embodies the fears of race-mixture that characterize any white supremacist society, certainly the pre-Civil Rights-era South. Quentin, ...
Remembering Aunt Callie and Mr. William.(Rachel Barr McGee)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Rachel Barr McGee's father, Ed Barr, was the brother of William Faulkner's beloved "Mammy Callie." In August 200 , the ninety-three-year-old Mrs. McGee shared with writer Ginger Rue her memories of life in Oxford, Mississippi with her Aunt Callie and "Mr. William." GR: What are ...
Beyond silence and realism: Trauma and the Function of ghosts in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... If we can agree that human slavery, as it was practiced in the United States and the Caribbean, paradoxically shares with the Holocaust a unique status, a quality of being particularly atrocious beyond the realm of realistic or rational representation, we might be tempted to speak nothing ...
Texts, contexts ... and a curious Lacuna.(books on William Faulkner)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Review of Charles Hannon, Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005. xii + 195 pp.; Peter Lurie, Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. xvi + 237 pp.; Owen Robinson, Creating Yoknaptawpha: ...
Abbreviations for texts to be cited in the Faulkner Journal.(List of abbreviations)
Mar 22, 2008 ... The editors here list the texts (with designated abbreviations) to which T essays published in The Faulkner Journal will refer; we ask contributors to use these texts when submitting essays, in order to save time and effort after acceptance. We consider these texts the best now available, ...
BEAR, MAN, AND BLACK: HUNTING THE HIDDEN IN FAULKNER'S BIG WOODS
Oct 01, 2007; ... I. Faulkner's "big woods" (GDM 257) might better be called "small," such is the rate of their contraction from the moment of the Bear's death in December 1 883. By June 1 885, Major de Spain has sold the timber rights to a Memphis lumber company (234), thereby translating common-land use ...
THE END OF THE LINE IN "PENNSYLVANIA STATION"
Oct 01, 2007; ... For anyone entering New York City by train from the South, Pennsylvania Station is the end of the line. Built in 1910 by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the massive neoclassical structure, covering some nine acres between Seventh and Eighth Avenues from 31st to 33rd Street, was ...
died: James B. Meriwether 1928-2007
Oct 01, 2007; ... James B. Meriwether, the noted Faulkner scholar who taught one of the editors and one member of The Faulkner Journal editorial board, died on March 18, 2007 in Columbia, South Carolina after a lengthy illness. Meriwether had held the McClintock Chair in Southern Letters at the University of ...
BURYING THE REGIONAL MOTHER: FAULKNER'S ROAD TO RACE THROUGH THE VISUAL ARTS
Oct 01, 2007; ... We did not know his legendary head in which the eyeballs ripened. But his torso still glows like a candelabrum in which his gaze, only turned low holds and gleams. Else could not the curve of the breast blind you, nor in the slight turn of the ...
Bear, man, and black: hunting the hidden in Faulkner's big woods.(William Faulkner)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... I. Faulkner's "big woods" (GDM 257) might better be called "small," such is the rate of their contraction from the moment of the Bear's death in December 1883. By June 1885, Major de Spain has sold the timber rights to a Memphis lumber company (234), thereby translating ...
The end of the line in "Pennsylvania Station".(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... For anyone entering New York City by train from the South, Pennsylvania Station is the end of the line. Built in 1910 by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the massive neoclassical structure, covering some nine acres between Seventh and Eighth Avenues from 31st to 33rd ...
Burying the regional mother: Faulkner's road to race through the visual arts.(William Faulkner)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... We did not know his legendary head in which the eyeballs ripened. But his torso still glows like a candelabrum in which his gaze, only turned low holds and gleams. Else could not the curve of the breast blind you, nor in the slight turn of the loins could a smile be running to ...
INTRODUCTION: SITUATING WHITENESS IN FAULKNER STUDIES, SITUATING FAULKNER IN WHITENESS STUDIES
Oct 01, 2006; ... Why whiteness? The emergence of critical whiteness studies over the last decade and a half has engendered its share of skepticism. After all, in a society whose central legal, social, and political institutions are still controlled largely by whites, and whose resources and privileges still fall ...
NEGOTIATING THE MARBLE BONDS OF WHITENESS: HYBRIDITY AND IMPERIAL IMPULSE IN FAULKNER
Oct 01, 2006; ... Finding links between Faulkner the young romantic poet and Faulkner the adult modernist fiction writer has proven difficult; the exuberant but melancholy singer of nymphs and fauns seems, at most, perhaps reborn as a sardonic aspect of the mature writer's complex and multifaceted ego, a ...