Faulkner and whiteness [electronic resource] / edited by Jay Watson.
Watson, Jay.
2011
PS3511.A86 Z78321117 2011eb
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Title Faulkner and whiteness [electronic resource] / edited by Jay Watson.
ISBN 9781617030215 (electronic bk.)
161703021X (electronic bk.)
9786613116635
6613116637
9781617030208
1617030201
Imprint Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxix, 257 p.) : ill.
Call Number PS3511.A86 Z78321117 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.52
Summary "William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the South. Throughout the writer's career racial paradigms were in flux, and these shifting notions are reflected in Faulkner's prose. Faulkner's fiction contains frequent questions about the ways in which white Americans view themselves with regard to race along with challenges to the racial codes and standards of the region, and complex portrayals of the interactions between blacks and whites. Throughout his work Faulkner contests white identity--its performance by whites and those passing for white, its role in shaping the South, and its assumption of normative identity in opposition to nonwhite "Others." This is true even in novels without a strong visible African American presence, such as As I Lay Dying, The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion. "Faulkner and Whiteness" explores the ways in which Faulkner's fiction addresses and destabilizes the concept of whiteness in American culture. Collectively, the essays argue that whiteness, as part of the Nobel Laureate's consistent querying of racial dynamics, is a central element. This anthology places Faulkner's oeuvre--and scholarly views of it--in the contexts of its contemporary literature and academic trends exploring race and texts."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: situating whiteness in Faulkner studies, situating Faulkner in whiteness studies / Jay Watson
Negotiating the marble bonds of whiteness: hybridity and imperial impulse in Faulkner / Taylor Hagood
Genealogies of white deviance: the eugenic family studies, Buck v. Bell, and William Faulkner, 1926-1931 / Jay Watson
Queering whiteness, queering Faulkner: Hightower's "Wild bulges" / Alfred J. López
Passing as miscegenation: whiteness and homoeroticism in Faulkner's Absalom, absalom! / Betina Entzminger
"A strange nigger": Faulkner and the minstrel performance of whiteness / John N. Duvall
Moonshine and magnolias: the story of Temple Drake and the birth of a nation / Deborah Barker
Inside and outside southern whiteness: film viewing, the frame, and the racing of space in Yoknapatawpha / Peter Lurie
White disavowal, black enfranchisement, and the homoerotic in William Faulkner's Light in August / Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
American emergencies: whiteness, the National Guard, and Light in August / Chuck Jackson.

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