Faulkner and Race - Paperback

by Doreen Fowler (Editor), Ann J. Abadie (Editor)

The essays in this volume address William Faulkner and the issue of race. Faulkner resolutely has probed the deeply repressed psychological dimensions of race, asking in novel after novel the perplexing question: what does blackness signify in a predominantly white society? However, Faulkner's public statements on the subject of race have sometimes seemed less than fully enlightened, and some of his black characters, especially in the early fiction, seem to conform to white stereotypical notions of what black men and women are like. These essays, originally presented by Faulkner scholars, black and white, male and female, at the 1986 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, the thirteenth in a series of conferences held on the Oxford campus of the University of Mississippi, explore the relationship between Faulkner and race.

With essays by

Eric J. Sundquist

Craig Werner

Blyden Jackson

Thadious Davis

Pamela J. Rhodes

Walter Taylor

Noel Polk

James A. Snead

Philip M. Wei

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Essays that focus on a theme central to understanding William Faulkner's works and illuminate his various stances on race

Author Biography

Doreen Fowler (Editor)
Doreen Fowler is professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is coeditor of many volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Ann J. Abadie (Editor)
Ann J. Abadie (1939-2024) was associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi as well as coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and other books published by University Press of Mississippi.