{"product_id":"faulkner-and-slavery-hardcover","title":"Faulkner and Slavery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJay Watson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJames G. Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Tim Armstrong, Edward A. Chappell, W. Ralph Eubanks, Amy A. Foley, Michael Gorra, Sherita L. Johnson, Andrew B. Leiter, John T. Matthews, Julie Beth Napolin, Erin Penner, Stephanie Rountree, Julia Stern, Jay Watson, and Randall Wilhelm \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1930, the same year he moved into Rowan Oak, a slave-built former plantation home in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi, William Faulkner published his first work of fiction that gave serious attention to the experience and perspective of an enslaved individual. For the next two decades, Faulkner repeatedly returned to the theme of slavery and to the figures of enslaved people in his fiction, probing the racial, economic, and political contours of his region, nation, and hemisphere in work such as \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLight in August\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eGo Down, Moses\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaulkner and Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century's most incisive authors on US slavery and the long ordeal of race in the Americas. Contributors to the volume examine the constitutive links among slavery, capitalism, and modernity across Faulkner's oeuvre. They study how the history of slavery at the University of Mississippi informs writings like \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom! \u003c\/i\u003eand trace how slavery's topologies of the rectilinear grid or square run up against the more reparative geography of the oval in Faulkner's narratives. Contributors explore how the legacies of slavery literally sound and resound across centuries of history, and across multiple novels and stories in Faulkner's fictional county of Yoknapatawpha, and they reveal how the author's remodeling work on his own residence brought him into an uncomfortable engagement with the spatial and architectural legacies of chattel slavery in north Mississippi. \u003ci\u003eFaulkner and Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely intervention not only in the critical study of the writer's work but in ongoing national and global conversations about the afterlives of slavery and the necessary work of antiracism.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Watson (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJay Watson\u003c\/b\u003e is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of many publications, including \u003ci\u003eWilliam Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eForensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFossil-Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also coeditor of multiple volumes in University Press of Mississippi's Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames G. Thomas Jr. (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJames G. Thomas, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Encyclopedia of Southern Culture \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Mississippi Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecoeditor (with Jay Watson) of \u003ci\u003eFaulkner and Print Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFaulkner and History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFaulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e; and editor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Barry Hannah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHis work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEthnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Southern Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLiving Blues\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161735467143,"sku":"9781496834409","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e8ec1f05d11c3e07427a2d93350e37a3.webp?v=1733283621","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/faulkner-and-slavery-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}