| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 179 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: FLESH AND THE PENCIL: Racial Identity and the Search for Form; Chapter 2: ""HOW CAN A BLACK MAN ASK?"": Orality, Race, and Identity; Chapter 3: FINDING SOMEBODY TO TALK TO: Detection, Confession, and the Color Line; Chapter 4: SNOPES WATCHING AND RACIAL IDEOLOGY; Chapter 5: RACE AND THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
A study of William Faulkner's final phase as a period in which he faced up to America's rigid protocols of racial ideology. This study argues that Faulkner's writings about racial matters interrogated rather than validated his racial beliefs and that, in the process of questioning his own ideology, his fictional forms extended his reach as an artist. After winning the Nobel Prize in 1950, Faulkner wrote what critics term "his later novels." These have been almost uniformly dismissed, with the prevailing view being that as he became a more public figure, his fiction became a platform |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Political and social views
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast |
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Faulkner, William, (1897-1962) -- Et le racisme. ram |
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Faulkner, William. swd |
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Race relations in literature.
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Race in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Literature and society -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
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Literary form -- History -- 20th century
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Literary form.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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African Americans in literature
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Literary form
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Literature and society
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Political and social views
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Race in literature
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Race relations in literature
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Rasse Motiv
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Roman
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Rassenverhoudingen.
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Romans.
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Noirs américains -- Dans la littérature.
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Genres littéraires.
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Southern States
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99052926 |
| ISBN |
9781617030963 |
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1617030961 |
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1283031175 |
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9781283031172 |
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9786613031174 |
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6613031178 |
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