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new Cambridge companion to William Faulkner
xxii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
"The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways of imagining sexual identity and behavior, the South's history as a plantation economy and society, and the persistent effects of traumatic cultural and personal experience. This new Companion provides an introduction to the innovative ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer"--
1. New media ecology -- 2. History's dark markings: Faulkner and film's racial representation -- 3. 'What moves at the margin': William Faulkner and race -- 4. Faulkner and biopolitics -- 5. As I Lay Dying and the modern aesthetics of ecological crisis -- 6. Faulkner and trauma: on Sanctuary's originality -- 7. Queer Faulkner: whores, queers, and the transgressive South -- 8. Faulkner and southern studies -- 9. The Faulkner factor: influence and intertextuality in south fiction since 1965 -- 10. They endured: the Faulknerian novel and post-45 American fiction -- 11. A new region of the world: Faulkner, Glissant, and the Caribbean -- 12. The Faulknerian anthropocene: scales of time and history in The Wild Palms and Go Down, Moses -- 13. Reading Faulkner in and beyond postcolonial studies: 'There is nowhere for us to go now but east.'
edited by John T. Matthews, Boston University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.