"The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature. The fictional domains of Yoknapatawpha County and Jefferson, Mississippi, are not simply imagined...
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"The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature. The fictional domains of Yoknapatawpha County and Jefferson, Mississippi, are not simply imagined communities but imaginative geographies of remarkable complexity and detail, as evidenced by the maps Faulkner created of his "apocryphal" county. Exploring the diverse functions of space in Faulkner's artistic vision, the eleven essays in Faulkner's Geographies delve deep into Yoknapatawpha but also reach beyond it, to uncover unsuspected connections and flows linking local, regional, national, hemispheric, and global geographies in Faulkner's writings. Individual contributions examine the influence of the plantation as a land-use regime on Faulkner's imagination of north Mississippi's geography; the emergence of "micro-Souths" as a product of modern migratory patterns in the urban North of Faulkner's fiction; the enlistment of the author's work in the geopolitics of the cultural Cold War during the 1950s; the historical and literary affiliations between Faulkner's Deep South and Greater Mexico; the local and idiosyncratic as alternatives to region and nation; the unique intersection of regional and metropolitan geographies that Faulkner encountered as a novice writer immersed in the literary culture of New Orleans; the uses of feminist geography to trace the interplay of gender, space, and movement; and the circulation of Caribbean and "Black South" spaces and itineraries through Faulkner's masterpiece, Absalom, Absalom!By bringing new attention to the function of space, place, mapping, and movement in his literature, Faulkner's Geographies seeks to redraw the very boundaries of Faulkner studies"--
"The thirty-seventh [sic] Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference sponsored by the University of Mississippi in Oxford took place july 17-21,2011 ... Eleven presentations on the theme "Faulkner's geographies" are collected as essays in this volume." - Note on the conference, Seite XXIV. - Konferenzzählung falsch; es handelt sich um die 38. Konferenz
Includes bibliographical references and index
Barbara Ladd Designing Spaces: Sutpen, Snopes, and the Promise of the Plantation / Scott Romine: Local Places/Modern Spaces: The Crossroads Local in Faulkner
John Shelton Reed: "My New Orleans Gang": Faulkner's French Quarter Circle
Benjamin S. Child: "No Kind of Place": New York City, Southernness, and Migratory Modernism
Kita Douglas: Jamestown and Jimson Weed: Charting the Autochthonous Claim of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Jose E. Limón: South by Southwest: William Faulkner and Greater Mexico
Ryan Heryford: Thomas Sutpen's Geography Lesson: Environmental Obscurities and Racial Remapping in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Valerie Loichot: Faulkner's Caribbean Geographies in Absalom, Absalom!
Farah Jasmine Griffin: A Daughter's Geography: William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and a New Mapping of "The Black South"
Harilaos Stecopoulos: William Faulkner and the Problem of Cold War Modernism
Lorie Watkins.: Woman in Motion: Escaping Yoknapatawpha