Richard C. Moreland is Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in English, and former Director of Graduate Studies in English at Louisiana State University. His previous publications include Faulkner and Modernism: Rereading and Rewriting (1990) and Learning from Difference: Teaching Morrison, Twain, Ellison, and Eliot (1999).

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• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Richard C. MorelandPART I Contexts 51 A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor 7Richard Godden2 "We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves": Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain 28Grace Elizabeth Hale and Robert Jackson3 A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers 46Anne Goodwyn Jones4 "C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse": Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem 65Catherine Gunther Kodat5 The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism 85Michael Zeitlin6 Faulkner's Lives 104Jay PariniPART II Questions 1137 Refl ections on Language and Narrative 115Owen Robinson8 Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner 133Barbara Ladd9 "Why Are You So Black?" Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion 148John N. Duvall10 Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility 165Julia Leyda11 Faulkner's Families 180Arthur F. Kinney12 Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner 202Cheryl Lester13 The State 220Ted Atkinson14 Violence in Faulkner's Major Novels 236Lothar Hönnighausen15 An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner's Post-Colonial Imagination 252Sean Latham16 Religion: Desire and Ideology 269Leigh Anne Duck17 Cinematic Fascination in Light in August 284Peter Lurie18 Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide 301Vincent Allan KingPART III Genres and Forms 31919 Faulkner's Genre Experiments 321Thomas L. McHaney20 "Make It New": Faulkner and Modernism 342Philip Weinstein21 Faulkner's Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime 359Susan V. Donaldson22 Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction 373Greg Forter23 William Faulkner's Short Stories 394Hans H. Skei24 Faulkner's Non-Fiction 410Noel Polk25 Faulkner's Texts 420Noel PolkPART IV Sample Readings 42726 "By It I Would Stand or Fall": Life and Death in As I Lay Dying 429Donald M. Kartiganer27 Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystifi cation in Absalom, Absalom! 445John Carlos Rowe28 "The Cradle of Your Nativity": Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy 459Evelyn Jaffe SchreiberPART V After Faulkner 47729 "He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus": Faulkner's Critical Reception 479Timothy P. Caron30 Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infl uence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines 499Deborah Cohn31 Faulkner's Continuance 519Patrick O'DonnellIndex 528