Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series)

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Note on the Conference
Introduction
“What There Is to Say”: Looking Back at My Friendship with Eudora Welty
Visionary and Incomplete: Comparing Cultural Landscapes of Faulkner, Wright, and Welty
Witnessing Jim Crow: Three Mississippi Writers and the Politics of Critical Race Theory
Kiese Laymon, Jesmyn Ward, and Natasha Trethewey: Writers of Our Mississippi Moment Showing How to Read Those We Had Read Before
Life in the Permanent War: Faulkner, Welty, and Wright and the Nuclear Arms Race
Welty and Wright and the Visual Idea of the American South
Literary Dispatches from the Postal South
“Burning in His Own Heart”: Contrasting Visions of Blindness and Invisibility as Social Death in Wright’s Native Son and Faulkner’s Light in August
Criminality, Sexuality, and Violence in Faulkner and Wright: Sanctuary and The Long Dream
William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and the Writing of African American Consciousness
The Transit of Memory: William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward, and Eudora Welty
“We Listen for What the Waves Intone”: Writing Black Women’s Liberatory Voices as Dialectical Ghosting in Eudora Welty’s “The Burning,” Margaret Walker’s Jubilee, and Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard
About the Contributors
Index