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Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,199
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Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas (Hardcover): Jay Watson, James G Thomas

Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas (Hardcover)

Jay Watson, James G Thomas

Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

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At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist Edouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that ""Faulkner's oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African Americans,"" a goal that ""will be achieved by a radically 'other' reading."" In the spirit of Glissant's prediction, this collection places William Faulkner's literary oeuvre in dialogue with a hemispheric canon of black writing from the United States and the Caribbean. The volume's seventeen essays and poetry selections chart lines of engagement, dialogue, and reciprocal resonance between Faulkner and his black precursors, contemporaries, and successors in the Americas. Contributors place Faulkner's work in illuminating conversation with writings by Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Randall Kenan, Edward P. Jones, and Natasha Trethewey, along with the musical artistry of Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton. In addition, five contemporary African American poets offer their own creative responses to Faulkner's writings, characters, verbal art, and historical example. In these ways, the volume develops a comparative approach to the Faulkner oeuvre that goes beyond the compelling but limiting question of influence - who read whom, whose works draw from whose - to explore the confluences between Faulkner and black writing in the hemisphere.

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Imprint: University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin: United States
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
Release date: April 2016
Editors: Jay Watson • James G Thomas
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-0634-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 1-4968-0634-4
Barcode: 9781496806345

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