Research Catalog

Title

Unflinching gaze : Morrison and Faulkner re-envisioned / edited by Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kolmerten, Carol A., 1946-
• Ross, Stephen M.
• Wittenberg, Judith Bryant, 1938-

Description

xv, 248 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• African Americans in literature
• Women in literature
• Sex role in literature
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century
• Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation
• Race relations in literature
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Influence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-243) and index.

Contents

Toni Morrison and the anxiety of Faulknerian influence / John N. Duvall -- The long high gaze : the mythical consciousness of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner / Carolyn Denard -- Toni Morrison and William Faulkner : remapping culture / Andrea Dimino -- David and Solomon : fathering in Faulkner and Morrison / Philip M. Weinstein -- Riff, refrain, reframe : Toni Morrison's Song of Absalom / Nancy Ellen Batty -- Narrative time/spiritual text : Beloved and As I Lay Dying / Karla F.C. Holloway -- The grandfather clause : reading the legacy from The Bear to Song of Solomon / Lucinda H. McKethan --Black matters on the Dixie Limited : As I Lay Dying and The Bluest Eye / Theresa M. Towner -- Untold stories : black daughters in Absalom, Absalom! and The Bluest Eye / Keith E. Byerman -- Reading for the "other side" : Beloved and Requiem for a Nun / Doreen Fowler -- History and story, sign and design : Faulknerian and postmodern voices in Jazz / Roberta Rubenstein -- Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe / Michael Hogan -- A postmodern Absalom, Absalom!, a modern Beloved : the dialectic of form / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- Signifying silences : Morrison's soundings in the Faulknerian void / Phillip Novak -- Faulkner in light of Morrison / Patrick O'Donnell.

Call Number

JFE 97-6442

ISBN

• 0878059555 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0878059563 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

96035243

OCLC

35450372

Title

Unflinching gaze : Morrison and Faulkner re-envisioned / edited by Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg.

Imprint

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-243) and index.

Added Author

Kolmerten, Carol A., 1946-

Ross, Stephen M.

Wittenberg, Judith Bryant, 1938-

Research Call Number

JFE 97-6442

Sc E 99-44