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Kiese Laymon and Eudora Welty Kiese Laymon and Eudora Welty
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Laymon, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright Laymon, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright
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Jesmyn Ward and William Faulkner Jesmyn Ward and William Faulkner
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Ward and Eudora Welty Ward and Eudora Welty
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Natasha Trethewey and William Faulkner Natasha Trethewey and William Faulkner
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Natasha Trethewey and Eudora Welty Natasha Trethewey and Eudora Welty
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Kiese Laymon, Jesmyn Ward, and Natasha Trethewey: Writers of Our Mississippi Moment Showing How to Read Those We Had Read Before
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Published:June 2024
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Abstract
Today, as in the twentieth century, contemporary Mississippi writers dominate the literary field. Kiese Laymon, Jesmyn Ward, and Natasha Trethewey represent a current Mississippi Renaissance in counterpoint with this volume’s primary trio, Faulkner, Welty, and Wright. These writers interact in a crowded landscape of mutual hauntings as the presence of older texts hovers in the new. This essay considers the six writers' interactions through allusions that often work in reverse, to complicate the texts alluded to, to show us new ways to read that which we thought we had fully read before. Allusions to earlier writers’ products not only write forward to produce new texts but also work backward to alter the ways that we read and reread the referent texts. And in the work of Laymon, Ward, and Trethewey, we are particularly concerned to write/unwrite the fraught narrative of race in the United States and in its literature.
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