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Title

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

Author

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (38th : 2011 : University of Mississippi)

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Watson, Jay
• Abadie, Ann J.

Description

xxvi, 187 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "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 1950s; 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 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 1950s; 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"--

Series Statement

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha series

Subjects

• Geography in literature > Congresses
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place) > Congresses
• Space in literature > Congresses
• Geographical perception in literature > Congresses
• Geopolitics in literature > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Local Places/Modern Spaces: The Crossroads Local in Faulkner / Barbara Ladd -- Designing Spaces: Sutpen, Snopes, and the Promise of the Plantation / Scott Romine -- "My New Orleans Gang": Faulkner's French Quarter Circle / John Shelton Reed -- "No Kind of Place": New York City, Southernness, and Migratory Modernism / Benjamin S. Child -- Jamestown and Jimson Weed: Charting the Autochthonous Claim of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury / Kita Douglas -- South by Southwest: William Faulkner and Greater Mexico / Jose E. Limón -- Thomas Sutpen's Geography Lesson: Environmental Obscurities and Racial Remapping in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! / Ryan Heryford -- Faulkner's Caribbean Geographies in Absalom, Absalom! / Valerie Loichot -- A Daughter's Geography: William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and a New Mapping of "The Black South" / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- William Faulkner and the Problem of Cold War Modernism / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- Woman in Motion: Escaping Yoknapatawpha / Lorie Watkins.

Call Number

JFE 16-5099

ISBN

• 9781496802279 (hardback)
• 1496802276 (hardback)
• a 9781496802286 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781496802286 (canceled/invalid)
• 1496802284 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014042295

OCLC

893899240

Conference

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (38th : 2011 : University of Mississippi)

Title

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

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Watson, Jay, editor.

Abadie, Ann J., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (38th : 2011 : University of Mississippi) Faulkner's geographies Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015 9781496802286

Research Call Number

JFE 16-5099