Format:
247 pages
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9780997926217
Series Statement:
Southeast's Faulkner conference series volume 5
Content:
Backwoods Modernism: Primitive Portraiture in Faulkner and Hurston / John Lowe -- Screwball Curves and Blues Licks: Hollywood Comedy and African American Music in Hurston and Faulkner / Tim A. Ryan -- Performing Southernness in Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and Hurston's "Dust Tracks on a Road" / Patricia Bradley -- Telling the White Man: Decoding the Gendered Blues and Domestic Violence in Hurston's "Sweat" and Faulkner's "That Evening Sun" / Ren Denton -- "You got tuh go there tuh know there": Reading, Race, Gender, and the "Womanshenegro" in the Novels of Faulkner and Hurston / Eden Wales Freedman -- Neither Separate Nor Equal: Not-so Tragic Mulattos in Faulkner's "Light in August" and Hurston's "Jonah's Gourd Vine / Christopher Rieger -- To Live a "Black" Life: Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as Source for Faulkner's "The Wild Palms" / Andrew B. Leiter -- Faulkern's "As I Lay Dying" and Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God": An Ecofeminist Reading / Shinya Matsuoka -- Language and the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and Historical Allegory in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" / John B. Padgett -- Interrogating Space: The Country Store in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" and Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" / Sidonia Serafini -- Faulkner, "Cathay," and Questions of Global Imperialism / Eiko Owanda -- Old Boundaries and New Orders: Contemporary Novelists and Faulkner's Dysfunctional Families / Terrell Tebbetts
Note:
On October 23-25, 2014, Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies hosted "Faulkner and Hurston," a conference devoted to the writings of William Faulkner and Zora Neale Hurston. The conference featured presentations by thirty-nine scholars representing seventeen different American states and four foreign countries (China, Nigeria, Japan, and Taiwan). -- Back cover
,
Includes bibliographical references
Language:
English
Keywords:
Faulkner, William 1897-1962
;
Hurston, Zora Neale 1891-1960
;
Konferenzschrift
