Article: Zender, Karl F. Faulkner and the Politics of Reading.(Book Review)

ZENDER, KARL F. Faulkner and the Politics of Reading. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xviii + 179 pp. $29.95.

In his second published collection of critical essays on the work of William Faulkner, Karl F. Zender strategically positions himself as a man in the middle in the sometimes cantankerous field of Faulkner studies. He praises the contemporary "revolution in styles of reading inaugurated by feminism, ethnic studies, poststructuralism, and cultural materialism" (xi) for opening his eyes to "literature as a form of cultural power and [to] the ways gender, race, and class shape and constrain an artist's vision" (xii), and for more or less ...

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