| Description |
xv, 248 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index. |
| Contents |
Toni Morrison and the anxiety of Faulknerian influence / John N. Duvall -- The long high gaze : the mythical consciousness of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner / Carolyn Denard -- Toni Morrison and William Faulkner : remapping culture / Andrea Dimino -- David and Solomon : fathering in Faulkner and Morrison / Philip M. Weinstein -- Riff, refrain, reframe : Toni Morrison's Song of Absalom / Nancy Ellen Batty -- Narrative time/spiritual text : Beloved and As I Lay Dying / Karla F.C. Holloway -- The grandfather clause : reading the legacy from The Bear to Song of Solomon / Lucinda H. McKethan --Black matters on the Dixie Limited : As I Lay Dying and The Bluest Eye / Theresa M. Towner -- Untold stories : black daughters in Absalom, Absalom! and The Bluest Eye / Keith E. Byerman -- Reading for the "other side" : Beloved and Requiem for a Nun / Doreen Fowler -- History and story, sign and design : Faulknerian and postmodern voices in Jazz / Roberta Rubenstein -- Built on the ashes : the fall of the house of Sutpen and the rise of the house of Sethe / Michael Hogan -- A postmodern Absalom, Absalom!, a modern Beloved : the dialectic of form / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- Signifying silences : Morrison's soundings in the Faulknerian void / Phillip Novak -- Faulkner in light of Morrison / Patrick O'Donnell. |
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Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Influence.
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African Americans in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Kolmerten, Carol A., 1946-
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Ross, Stephen M.
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Wittenberg, Judith Bryant, 1938-
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| ISBN |
0878059555 cloth alkaline paper |
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0878059563 paper alkaline paper |
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