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Contributions by Eric Gary Anderson, Melanie R. Anderson, Jodi A. Byrd, Gina Caison, Robbie Ethridge, Patricia Galloway, LeAnne Howe, John Wharton Lowe, Katherine M. B. Osburn, Melanie Benson Taylor, Annette Trefzer, and Jay Watson From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching implications of Faulkner's fictional place-name "Yoknapatawpha," to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding of Faulkner's fiction (including but not limited to the novels and stories he devoted explicitly to Native American topics), the eleven essays of this volume advance the critical analysis of Faulkner's Native South and the Native South's Faulkner. Critics push beyond assessments of the historical accuracy of his Native representations and the colonial hybridity of his Indian characters. Essayists turn instead to indigenous intellectual culture for new models, problems, and questions to bring to Faulkner studies. Along the way, readers are treated to illuminating comparisons between Faulkner's writings and the work of a number of Native American authors, filmmakers, tribal leaders, and historical figures. Faulkner and the Native South brings together Native and non-Native scholars in a stimulating and often surprising critical dialogue about the indigenous wellsprings of Faulkner's creative energies and about Faulkner's own complicated presence in Native American literary history.
About the author
Jay Watson (Editor) 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.
Annette Trefzer (Editor) 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.
James G. Thomas Jr. (Editor) 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
Faulkner and Print Culture,
Faulkner and History, and
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas; 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.
Summary
From insights into the Chickasaw sources of Faulkner's fictional ‘Yoknapatawpha’, to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding of Faulkner's fiction, the essays in this volume advance the critical analysis of Faulkner's Native South and the Native South's Faulkner.
