Places William Faulkner's literary oeuvre in dialogue with a hemispheric canon of black writing from the United States and the Caribbean. The volume's seventeen essays and poetry selections chart lines of engagement, dialogue, and reciprocal resonance between Faulkner and his black precursors, contemporaries, and successors in the Americas.

Brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of William Faulkner's relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures; and his influence on professional historians.

Family played an outsized role in both William Faulkner's life and writings, often in deeply problematic ways. The dozen essays featured in this collection approach Faulkner's many families - actual and imagined - as especially revealing windows to his work and his world.