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List of contents
Part I. Approaches: 1. Faulkner and Formalism Sebastien Fanzun; 2. Faulkner and modernist gothic Dolores Flores-Silva and Keith Cartwright; 3. '[T]he critic must leave the Western hemisphere': Faulkner and World Literature Jenna Grace Sciuto; 4. Faulkner and print culture John N. Duvall; 5. Faulkner after Morrison Catherine Gunther Kodat; 6. Faulkner's acoustics, or minor sound Julie Beth Napolin; Part II. Cultures: 7. Queering Faulkner: Content, Structure, Failure Alexander Howard; 8. Faulkner and Women Lisa Hinrichsen; 9. 'A Shape to fill a lack': Faulkner and Indigenous Studies Eric Gary Anderson; 10. On Thingification: Faulkner and Afropessimism Joanna Davis-McElligatt; Part III. Interfaces: 11. William Faulkner, Public intellectual Robert Jackson; 12. Faulkner and screen culture Stefan Solomon; 13. Faulkner and modern war Michael Zeitlin; 14. Fossil-fuel Faulkner: Energy and modernity in the US South Jay Watson; Afterword: 'The wrong people,' Filling in the ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ , and New Faulkner studies Taylor Hagood.
About the author
Sarah Gleeson-White is Associate Professor in American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on William Faulkner, including William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays (2017), and her articles on Faulkner and early twentieth-century U.S. literature and film have appeared in such journals as PMLA, Modernism/modernity, and African American Review.Pardis Dabashi is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno, where she specializes in modernism, novel studies, and film studies. Her work has appeared in such venues as PMLA, Modernism/modernity, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, Public Books, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is currently completing her first book, which studies plot, ambivalence, and normativity in the modernist novel and popular film.
Summary
This volume situates Faulkner within a range of current and emerging critical fields, such as African American studies, visual culture studies, world literatures, modernist studies, gender studies, and the energy humanities. The essays are written with the Faulkner expert and general reader in mind, and covers the full range of Faulkner's opus.
