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; Ramos, Peter ... 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; Sugimori, Masami ... 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; Paradiso, Sharon Desmond ... 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; Kartiganer, Donald M ... 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; Rue, Ginger ... 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 ...