Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Michael P. Bibler, Deborah Clarke,
David A. Davis, David M. Earle, Jason D. Fichtel, Elizabeth
Fielder, Joseph Fruscione, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Patrick E. Horn,
Cheryl Lester, Jessica Martell, Sharon Monteith, Richard C.
Moreland, Alan Nadel, Julie Beth Napolin, Francois Pitavy, Ramon
Saldivar, Hortense J. Spillers, Terrell L. Tebbetts, Zackary
Vernon, Randall Wilhelm, and Charles Reagan Wilson These essays
examine issues across the wide arc of Faulkner's extraordinary
career, from his aesthetic apprenticeship in the visual arts, to
late-career engagements with the Cold War, the civil rights
movement, and beyond, to the place of death in his artistic vision
and the long, varied afterlives he and his writings have enjoyed in
literature and popular culture. Contributors deliver stimulating
reassessments of Faulkner's first novel, Soldiers' Pay; his final
novel, The Reivers; and much of the important work between.
Scholars explore how a broad range of elite and lowbrow cultural
forms - plantation diaries, phonograph records, pulp magazines -
shaped Faulkner's capacious imagination and how his works were
translated into such media as film and modern dance. Essays place
Faulkner's writings in dialogue with those of fellow
twentieth-century authors including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ernest
Hemingway, Richard Hall, and Jayne Anne Phillips; locate his work
in relation to African American intellectual currents and Global
South artistic traditions; and weigh the rewards as well as the
risks of dislodging Faulkner from the canonical position he
currently occupies. While Faulkner studies has cultivated an image
of the novelist as a neglected genius who toiled in obscurity, a
look back fifty years to the final months of the author's life
reveals a widely traveled and celebrated artist whose significance
was framed in national and international as well as regional terms.
Fifty Years after Faulkner bears out that expansive view,
reintroducing us to a writer whose work retains its ability to
provoke, intrigue, and surprise a variety of readerships.
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