New Essays on Go Down, Moses

ISBN-13: 9780521456098 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 172 str.

Prof Linda Wagner-Martin; Linda W. Martin; Prof Linda Wagner-Martin

Opis

Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the second world war and was written during one of Faulkner's most traumatic periods, yet it has fallen to critical neglect amid the vast scholarship on the great Southern writer. In part, this collection aims to tilt the balance, forcing the reader beyond critical commonplaces through asking challenging questions. The five essays assembled here explore the tensions of race and gender apparent throughout the novel.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Linda Wagner-Martin; 2. Touching race in Go Down, Moses John T. Matthews; 3. Go Down, Moses and the discourse of environmentalism Judith Bryant Wittenberg; 4. Her shape, his hand: the spaces of African American women in Go Down, Moses Minrose Gwin; 5. Who wears the mask? memory, desire, and race in Go Down, Moses Judith L. Sensibar; 6. The game of courts: Go Down, Moses, arbitrary legalities, and compensatory boundaries Thadious M. Davis.