Contributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph
Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B.
Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner,
Stephanie Rountree, Julia Stern, Jay Watson, and Randall Wilhelm In
1930, the same year he moved into Rowan Oak, a slave-built former
plantation home in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, William
Faulkner published his first work of fiction that gave serious
attention to the experience and perspective of an enslaved
individual. For the next two decades, Faulkner repeatedly returned
to the theme of slavery and to the figures of enslaved people in
his fiction, probing the racial, economic, and political contours
of his region, nation, and hemisphere in work such as The Sound and
the Fury; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; and Go Down, Moses.
Faulkner and Slavery is the first collection to address the myriad
legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal
history of one of the twentieth century's most incisive authors on
US slavery and the long ordeal of race in the Americas.
Contributors to the volume examine the constitutive links among
slavery, capitalism, and modernity across Faulkner's oeuvre. They
study how the history of slavery at the University of Mississippi
informs writings like Absalom, Absalom! and trace how slavery's
topologies of the rectilinear grid or square run up against the
more reparative geography of the oval in Faulkner's narratives.
Contributors explore how the legacies of slavery literally sound
and resound across centuries of history, and across multiple novels
and stories in Faulkner's fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, and
they reveal how the author's remodeling work on his own residence
brought him into an uncomfortable engagement with the spatial and
architectural legacies of chattel slavery in north Mississippi.
Faulkner and Slavery offers a timely intervention not only in the
critical study of the writer's work but in ongoing national and
global conversations about the afterlives of slavery and the
necessary work of antiracism.
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