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WILLIAM FAULKNER IN CONTEXT William Faulkner in Context explores the environment that condi- tioned Faulkner’s creative work. This book provides a broad and authoritative framework that will help readers to understand better this widely read yet challenging writer. Each essay offers a critical assessmentofFaulkner’sworkasitrelatestosuchtopicsastheplaces, historical times, and imaginative genres that conditioned Faulkner’s writing.AlthoughFaulknerdweltinhisnativeMississippithrough- outhislife,hisvisitstocitieslikeNewOrleans,Paris,andHollywood profoundly shaped his early career. Inextricable from the dramatic upheavals of the twentieth century, Faulkner’s writing was deeply affectedbytheGreatWar,theGreatDepression,WorldWarII,and thecivilrightsmovement.Inthisvolume,ahostofrenownedscholars shedlightonthisenigmaticwriterandrenderhimmoreaccessibleto studentsandteachersalike. john t. matthews is Professor of English at Boston Univer- sity. His previous books include The Play of Faulkner’s Language; “TheSoundandtheFury”:FaulknerandtheLostCause;andWilliam Faulkner:SeeingThroughtheSouth. Matthews’sarticles onFaulkner andSouthernliteraturehaveappearedinsuchjournalsasTexasStud- iesinLanguageandLiterature,AmericanLiterature,AmericanLiterary History,andPhilologicalQuarterly. WILLIAM FAULKNER IN CONTEXT edited by JOHN T. MATTHEWS BostonUniversity 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107050372 ©JohnT.Matthews2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData WilliamFaulknerincontext/[editedby]JohnMatthews,BostonUniversity. pages cm isbn978-1-107-05037-2(hardback) 1.Faulkner,William,1897–1962–Criticismandinterpretation. I.Matthews,John,1950–editor. ps3511.a86z98569524 2015 813(cid:2).52–dc3 2014038224 isbn978-1-107-05037-2Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Acknowledgments pageviii Notesoncontributors ix Listofabbreviations xiv Introduction 1 JohnT.Matthews places oxford, mississippi 1 ‘Bornthere’:Faulkner,Oxford,andLafayetteCounty 11 PhilipWeinstein the mississippi valley 2 Primeval,Goddam,andbeyond:OnMississippi 23 RobertJackson the caribbean 3 Agulfsociety 35 MatthewPrattGuterl 4 WilliamFaulkner’sCaribbeanpoetics 46 Val´erieLoichot africa 5 WhatwasAfricatoFaulkner? 59 KeithCartwright v vi Contents cities of the modern 6 Cosmopolitanculture:NewOrleanstoParis 71 TaylorHagood 7 TheHollywoodchallenge 79 JamesD.Bloom times rural modernization between the wars 8 TopologiesofdiscourseinFaulkner 91 CharlesHannon 9 ‘It’and‘Ole´’in1930:ThestructuraleconomyofFaulkner’s complexwords 100 RichardGodden 10 Modernsexuality 111 KristinFujie 11 Thecageofgender 119 JohnT.Matthews 12 TheworldofJimCrow 135 LeighAnneDuck the united states as world power 13 Southtotheworld:WilliamFaulknerandtheAmerican Century 147 HarilaosStecopoulos 14 Unsteadystate:FaulknerandtheColdWar 156 CatherineGuntherKodat genres fictions of the plantation 15 “Truthsomazed”:FaulknerandUSplantationfiction 169 PeterSchmidt Contents vii modernism 16 FaulknerandtheModernistnovel 185 JacquesPothier 17 FaulknergoestoHollywood 194 SarahGleeson-White fictions of race 18 ReadingWilliamFaulknerafterthecivilrightsera 207 BarbaraLadd american gothic 19 Writingpasttrauma:Faulknerandthegothic 219 LisaHinrichsen the market for fiction 20 Faulknerandthepaperbacktrade 231 DavidM.Earle after faulkner: a world of readers 21 WritingafterFaulkner:FaulknerandcontemporaryUSfiction 249 JayWatson 22 ReadingFaulkner:Empathy,distance,Tehran 259 MichaelKreyling 23 FaulknerandLatinAmerica;LatinAmericainFaulkner 270 EmronEsplin 24 WilliamFaulknerandJapan 279 TakakoTanaka 25 Faulkneras/andthepostcolonialwriter 288 HosamAboul-Ela 26 TranslatingFaulkner:Canatranslatorbeandrogynous? 298 IkukoFujihira Index 307 Acknowledgments Iwishtothankthecontributorstothisvolumefortheirunfailinglygener- ouscollaboration.TheseveralanonymousreadersforCambridgeUniver- sityPressalsocontributedimportantlytotheeventualdesignofthebook, and I want to emphasize that the volume reflects the thinking of a great manyexpertsaboutwhatreadersmightwanttoknowastheyengagewith Faulkner’s writing. I thank Ray Ryan for his commitment to the project andconfidenceinmyconceptionofit.ResearchsupportfundedbyBoston University’sCollegeofArtsScienceswasindispensable,andIthankDean VirginiaSapiroandmychairintheDepartmentofEnglish,GeneJarrett, forassistancethroughout.IamespeciallygratefultoGregChase,adoctoral studentinEnglishatBostonUniversity,whoservedasresearchassistantin thepreparationofthemanuscript.Greg’sworkwasindispensableatevery stage,andconductedwithsupremeskillfulnessanddispatch. viii
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