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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