Unflinching gaze : Morrison and Faulkner re-envisioned / edited by Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg.

Contributor Kolmerten, Carol A., 1946-

Imprint:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1997.

Descriptionxv, 248 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: Refusing to look away / Carol A. Kolmerten, Stephen M. Ross, Judidth Bryant Wittenberg -- PART I. INTERTEXTUALITY: Toni Morrison anad the anxiety of Faulknerian influence / John N. Duvall -- The long, high gaze: the mythical consciousness of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner / Carolyn Denard -- Toni Morrison and William Faulkner: remapping culture / Andrea Dimino -- David and Solomon: fathering in Faulkner and Morrison / Philip M. Weinstein -- PART II. PAIRINGS: Riff, refrain, reframe: Toni Morrison's Song of Absalom / Nancy Ellen Batty -- Narrative time/spiritual text: Beloved and As I Lay Dying / Karla F.C. Holloway -- The grandfather clause: reading the legacy from "The Bear" to Song of Solomon / Lucinda H. MacKethan -- Black matters on the Dixie Limited: As I Lay Dying and The Bluest Eye / Thersa M. Towner -- Untold stories: black daughters in Absalom, Absalom! and The Bluest Eye / Keith E. Byerman -- Reading for the "Other Side": Beloved and Requiem for a Nun / Doreen Fowler -- History and story: sign and design: Faulknerian and postmodern voices in Jazz / Roberta Rubenstein -- PART III. ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND BELOVED: Built on the ashes: the fall of the House of Sutpen and the rise of the House of Sethe / Michael Hogan -- A postmodern Alsalom, Absalom!, a modern Beloved: the dialecctic of form / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- Signifying silences: Morrison's Soundings in the Faulknerian void / Phillip Novak -- CODA: Faulkner in light of Morrison / Patrick O'Donnell.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references, "Works cited" (p. 233-243), and index.

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