In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he
characterized it as ""the only really authentic region in the
United States, because a deep indestructible bond still exists
between man and his environment."" The essays collected in Faulkner
and the Ecology of the South explore Faulkner's environmental
imagination, seeking what Ann Fisher-Wirth calls the ""ecological
counter-melody"" of his texts. ""Ecology"" was not a term in common
use outside the sciences in Faulkner's time. However, the word
""environment"" seems to have held deep meaning for Faulkner. Often
he repeated his abiding interest in ""man in conflict with himself,
with his fellow man, or with his time and place, his environment.""
Eco-criticism has led to a renewed interest among literary scholars
for what in this volume Cecelia Tichi calls, ""humanness within
congeries of habitats and en-vironments."" Philip Weinstein draws
on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus. Eric Anderson argues that
Faulkner's fiction has much to do with ecology in the sense that
his work often examines the ways in which human communities
interact with the natural world, and Francois Pitavy sees
Faulkner's wilderness as unnatural in the ways it represents
reflections of man's longings and frustrations. Throughout these
essays, scholars illuminate in fresh ways the precarious ecosystem
of Yoknapatawpha County. Joseph R. Urgo, Oxford, Mississippi, is
chair of the English department at the University of Mississippi.
His books include Faulkner's Apocrypha, Novel Frames: Literature as
Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture, and In the Age
of Distraction, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Ann J. Abadie, Oxford, is associate director of the Center for the
Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. She has
coedited Faulkner and His Contemporaries, Faulkner and War,
Faulkner and Postmodernism, and Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and
Prospect, among other Faulkner volumes, all published by University
Press of Mississippi.
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