... in various ways implicated in Haiti’s difficult history, but they also prosper in the US, claim a historically situated culture, and exhibit a complex understanding of their own responsibilities to the past, the present, and maybe even the future, and often speak two or more languages. Absalom Absalom...

... of Faulkner’s novels, Absalom, Absalom!, in which race provides a narrative “out” for Quentin and Shreve’s otherwise failed attempts to explain why Henry Sutpen kills Charles Bon. The chapter then comments on Judith Butler’s discussion of gender identity as part of an “epistemological...

... in the Compson novels, The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, texts which double as Harvard novels. Quentin's brief tenure at Harvard overlaps with the career of Albert Bushnell Hart, an important period commentator who contributed to the national debate over the “Problem...

...This essay contrasts the downward spiral of Thomas Sutpen’s story with the author’s triumphant presentation of that story as a work of art. It includes a discussion of the symbolic function of the map of Yoknapatawpha with which Faulkner ends the novel. Absalom Absalom! Compson family Japan Kuyk...

...This chapter examines whether there has ever been a lesbian William Faulkner by analyzing his novel Absalom, Absalom!, and by highlighting textual similarities between it and Southern lesbian literature. It argues that the novel is a “foremother” to contemporary lesbian writing...

...This chapter is an essay which considers William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom!, the story of demonic Thomas Sutpen's rise from poor white to opulent planter. Faulkner's narrates Sutpen's matrimonial experiments with whites and Negroes, his desire for a son and a perpetuated...

...This chapter contains a number of journal entries, written between April 10, 1940 and November 6, 1949. In them, Thornton Wilder talks about three of William Faulkner's novels: Light in August, The Hamlet, and Absalom, Absalom!. Wilder first...

... of hybrid of those entities grown out of more or less local soil...” According to the author, if you come to Faulkner late you may escape finding yourself enthralled, intoxicate, intestate. He recalls the time his English teacher gave him a copy of Absalom, Absalom! and says he...

...This chapter talks about Absalom, Absalom!. It begins by saying that “William Faulkner's vicarious heroic would have taken him to reunions of the American pilots who formed the Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force...His true heroics, visible and audible on every page, depend...

...This chapter presents an interview with Alice McDermott, who talks about the book that changed her life: Absalom, Absalom!. McDermott first narrates how she discovered Absalom, Absalom! and her initial reaction to William Faulkner's storytelling. She says...

... reveal how the poor white presence mitigates the conditions of slavery in Faulkner’s fiction by displacing the brutalities of slavery with poor white suffering. Absalom Absalom! Faulkner Civil War Go Down Moses Faulkner Howe Irving poor whites slavery abolition of international trade Turner Darwin...

..., slavery, and the University of Mississippi. Further, the essay evokes questions about how Faulkner constructed the relationship between Charles Bon and Henry Sutpen in Absalom, Absalom!, a relationship that has the University of Mississippi as a backdrop. Whether or not Faulkner had...

..., that flirts problematically with untenable forms of what we now call postracialism. “Faulkner’s Future Americans” focuses on three of these marginal figures—Lena Grove’s baby in Light in August, Jim Bond in Absalom, Absalom!, and Roth Edmonds’s child with his mixed-race...

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... they elsewhere collude to sublimate. This essay faults Southern Gothic in its more spectacular manifestations (including Absalom, Absalom!) for overrepresenting the nation’s constitutive racial traumas to the point of rendering them utterly alien or, worse, enjoyable in their monstrosity...

...This chapter presents a reading of Absalom, Absalom! (1936) through the Cold War novel Requiem for a Nun (1951) in order to suggest that Faulkner’s concerns about global capital—so fully bodied forth in the later work—may have shaped his understanding in ways he...

... Clinton. He and the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez were guests. When Clinton asked each one of them what their favorite novel was, the author mentioned Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. Clinton went on to narrate his visit to Faulkner's house in Oxford while he was a teen...

...The slave master appears and then makes a belated symbolic reappearance in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury. In this essay, Julia Stern traces master Thomas Sutpen’s idiosyncratic practices, working along with his bonds people by day...

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...This essay contrasts the Thomas Sutpen story in Absalom, Absalom! with the Cass Mastern subplot in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men-the only part of Warren’s novel that Faulkner admired. Sutpen’s story is one of tragedy and doom; Mastern’s is one...