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Faulkner and Hurston

Edited by Christopher Rieger and Andrew B. Leiter

Publication: June 2017

Featuring:

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 William Faulkner and Zora Neale Hurston

Eden Wales Freedman

 

Neither Separate Nor Equal: Not-so Tragic Mulattos in Light in August and 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

 

Faulkner’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 Padgett

 

Interrogating Space: The Country Store in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

Sidonia Serafini

 

Faulkner, “Cathay,” and Questions of Global Imperialism

Eiko Owada

 

Old Boundaries and New Orders: Contemporary Novelists and Faulkner’s Dysfunctional Families

Terrell Tebbetts