Faulkner, Welty, Wright

Annette Trefzer is professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Exposing Mississippi: Eudora Welty’s Photographic Reflections and Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction and coeditor of Global Faulkner; Faulkner’s Sexualities; Faulkner and Mystery; Faulkner and Formalism: Returns of the Text; and Faulkner and the Native South, all published by University Press of Mississippi, and her work has appeared in many journals.Jay Watson is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of many publications, including William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity, Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner, and Fossil-Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South. He is also coeditor of multiple volumes in University Press of Mississippi’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series. James G. Thomas, Jr., is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and The Mississippi Encyclopedia; coeditor (with Jay Watson) of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Series; and editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah. His work has appeared in Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century, Southern Cultures, Southern Quarterly, and Living Blues.

• Note on the ConferenceIntroductionAnnette Trefzer and Jay Watson"What There Is to Say": Looking Back at My Friendship with Eudora WeltySuzanne MarrsVisionary and Incomplete: Comparing Cultural Landscapes of Faulkner, Wright, and WeltyJulia EichelbergerWitnessing Jim Crow: Three Mississippi Writers and the Politics of Critical Race TheorySusan V. DonaldsonKiese Laymon, Jesmyn Ward, and Natasha Trethewey: Writers of Our Mississippi Moment Showing How to Read Those We Had Read BeforeHarriet PollackLife in the Permanent War: Faulkner, Welty, and Wright and the Nuclear Arms RaceRyoichi YamaneWelty and Wright and the Visual Idea of the American SouthW. Ralph EubanksLiterary Dispatches from the Postal SouthDonnie McMahand and Kevin Murphy"Burning in His Own Heart": Contrasting Visions of Blindness and Invisibility as Social Death in Wright’s Native Son and Faulkner’s Light in AugustBernard T. JoyCriminality, Sexuality, and Violence in Faulkner and Wright: Sanctuary and The Long DreamJohn Wharton LoweWilliam Faulkner, Richard Wright, and the Writing of African American ConsciousnessAnita DeRouen and Anne MacMasterThe Transit of Memory: William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward, and Eudora WeltySarah Gilbreath Ford"We Listen for What the Waves Intone": Writing Black Women’s Liberatory Voices as Dialectical Ghosting in Eudora Welty’s "The Burning," Margaret Walker’s Jubilee, and Natasha Trethewey’s Native GuardRebecca MarkAbout the ContributorsIndex