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Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (13th : 1986 : University of Mississippi)
Imprint:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1987.
Descriptionxi, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Papers presented at the 13th Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the Oxford campus of the University of Mississippi, 1986.
Note:Faulkner, race, and the forms of American fiction / Eric J. Sundquist -- Minstrel nightmares: black dreams of Faulkner's dreams of blacks / Craig Werner -- Faulkner's negroes twain / Blyden Jackson -- From jazz syncopation to blues elegy: Faulkner's development of black characterization / Thadious M. Davis -- Who killed Simon Strother, and why? Race and counterplot in Flags in the Dust / Pamela E. Rhodes -- Faulkner's Reivers: how to change the joke without slipping the yoke / Walter Taylor -- Man in the middle: Faulkner and the southern white moderate / Noel Polk -- Light in August and the rhetorics of racial division / James A. Snead -- Marginalia: Faulkner's black lives / Philip M. Weinstein -- Black as white metaphor: a European view of Faulkner's fiction / Lothar Hönnighausen -- Race, history, and technique in Absalom, Absalom! / Frederick R. Karl -- "Ah just cant quit thinking": Faulkner's black razor murderers / Hoke Perkins -- Lucas Beauchamp and Jim: Mark Twain's influence on William Faulkner / Sergei Chakovsky -- Faulkner and the vocational liabilities of black characterization / Michael Grimwood -- Requiem for a Nun and the uses of the imagination / Karl F. Zender.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.
