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Faulkner, Writer of Disability (Hardcover)
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Faulkner, Writer of Disability (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Literary Studies
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From the emerging field of disability studies, Taylor Hagood offers
the first book-length consideration of impairment in William
Faulkner's life and writing. Blending biography, textual analysis,
and theory in an experimental style, Hagood explores in both form
and content the constructs of normality and their power. Hagood
brings to light little-known and rarely discussed ways in which
Faulkner's personal and familial background were marked by
disability and discusses the ways the writer incorporates
disability into his fiction. He reevaluates Faulkner's so-called
""idiots""-Benjy Compson, Ike Snopes, and others-as characters
whose narratives both satisfy and shock the reader. Hagood also
examines the roles that impairment and abnormality play in texts
such as the stories ""The Leg"" and ""The Kingdom of God"" and the
novels A Fable and Flags in the Dust. Highly original readings
result, including new understandings of: the centrality of the
visually impaired Pap in Sanctuary; the disability-centric social
order based on interdependence in Pylon; and the disabled speech of
Linda Snopes Kohl in The Mansion. Hagood argues that Faulkner's
poetics are deeply invested in disability, both in promoting a
disability-inclusive fictional world and in exposing and subverting
the devaluation of disabled bodies and minds. Hagood draws on
firsthand knowledge of his native of Ripley, Mississippi, the
ancestral home of the Faulkners, to offer readers otherwise
inaccessible contextual information. Moreover, by framing each
section of his study within a different kind of discourse-newspaper
style, biography, email, and advertisement-he uses the very
structure of the book to underscore the questions of normalcy
prevalent in disability studies. This rich and unconventional study
offers insight into a Faulkner haunted by experiences of
disablement and compelled to narrate them in his own writing.
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Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Southern Literary Studies |
Release date: |
2015 |
First published: |
2015 |
Authors: |
Taylor Hagood
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
232 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-5726-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
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LSN: |
0-8071-5726-0 |
Barcode: |
9780807157268 |
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