...This chapter examines the notion of context by comparing William Faulkner’s novel Light in August (1932) with Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and argues that the two authors have more in common than one might assume. More specifically, it considers how reading...

.... It cites five masterpieces written by Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, and The Hamlet. Knight’s Gambit Reivers The Tate Allen Absalom Absalom! As I Lay Dying “Bear...

... “Spotted Horses” and its “exuberant redundancy of words in their extravagant application to capture a bizarre, outrageous hallucination.” It also considers the novel Light in August, in which the character Lena Grove makes her way like a sleepwalker through a gothic crackling of passions...

... Mosquitoes I Lay Dying Light in August Finding links between Faulkner the young romantic poet and Faulkner the adult modernist fiction writer has proven difficult; the exuberant but melancholy singer of nymphs and fauns seems, at most, perhaps reborn as a sardonic aspect of the mature writer’s complex...

...This chapter focuses on the defrocked minister Gail Hightower in William Faulkner’s novel Light in August as “the divided, repressed psyche of closeted gay whiteness in the Jim Crow South.” Doubly marked by failed performances of normative whiteness and compulsory heterosexuality...

... examines these connections in William Faulkner’s fictions such as “Dry September” and Light in August in the context of viewership that is simultaneously inside and outside the operation of normative whiteness in Yoknapatawpha. Faulkner William genealogical imagination of lynching...

...This chapter explores whiteness as a racial formation in William Faulkner’s novel Light in August in the context of the post-Reconstruction period in the South. It looks at the postbellum enfranchisement of African American men and how racial blackness underwent a cultural...

... Faulkner’s 1932 novel Light in August, focusing on its “promise of militarized modernization” reserved almost exclusively for white men, and how it “assisted in disciplining and federalizing a whiteness that belonged to the masses...and thus resignified local or regional whiteness...

... Compson of “That Evening Sun” and Joe Christmas of Light in August as they “undergo an iterative assimilation of white supremacy’s violence” and the “complex and oppressive social machinery” through which it imposes itself on their lives. Touched by racism in very personal ways...

...This chapter examines textuality and authority in William Faulkner’s novel Light in August, focusing on the body, especially the abject body. It begins with an analysis of Doane’s Mill as a desolate industrial wasteland that foreshadows the abject or “disposable” human environment...

... relationship to this latter area by way of the US-Mexico War but also as a result of subsequent Mexican immigration to the US South. The essay gives special attention to Light in August but also considers the influence of Faulkner on later writers of Greater Mexico such as Cormac McCarthy...

... determinism Macbeth Reivers The Sound and the Fury The Tempest The Bunch Byron Frye Allen Hightower Gail Joyce James Light in August Ulysses Christmas Joe Grove Lena Henry IV Tennyson Alfred Civil War Jim Crow “past present tense ” Reconstruction South Yoknapatawpha Bakhtin Mikhail...

...This chapter explores the issue of police brutality Faulkner's seventh novel, Light in August. The novel locates the violent questioning of an African American detainee by the Yoknapatawpha County sheriff and his deputies within a national debate over custodial interrogation...

...This essay by Aaron Nyerges takes a particularly philosophical approach to Faulkner’s depiction of characterization, above all in his novel Light in August. He shows how Joe Christmas’s seeming “automatism” follows from Faulkner’s efforts to bring together cinema’s technology, his...

...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...

...This chapter contains Vladimir Nabokov's letter to Edmund Wilson, in which he criticized William Faulkner's novel Light in August that was sent to him by Wilson. In his letter, dated November 21, 1948, Nabokov expresses his dislike of Faulkner's work. In particular, Nabokov says he...

...In this chapter, John Crowe Ransom offers an impression of William Faulkner's achievement, an impression that he says has not changed much during the years that followed his reading of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August...

... in American letters that feudal and agrarian South which lost in the Civil War. Among his works are The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Intruder in the Dust. Borges Jorge Luis...

..., 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...

... to explore how Light in August is tied intimately to the region’s logging and woodworking industries. Other chapters in the book include Kevin Railey’s on the consumer goods that appear in Flags in the Dust. Miles Orvell discusses the Confederate Soldier monuments installed...