The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 1996

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 1996

"this was the answer to it": Sexuality and Maternity in As I Lay Dying.
June 22, 1996... As I Lay Dying, IN HORRIFYING IF RATHER COMIC DETAIL, TELLS OF a woman--mother of five and wife of a poor tenant farmer in Mississippi--who dies relatively young and is taken on a too-long journey to Jefferson, where she is buried and replaced...

"This Guerrilla Warfare of Everyday Life": The Politics of Clothing in Faulkner's Fiction.
June 22, 1996... MENTION WILLIAM FAULKNER, AND YOU SUMMON UP a mythical locale that seems more real to many readers than the actual places they live. Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha is a complex, disturbing place, inhabited by characters whose frustration and violence...

Hightower's Apotheosis in Light in August.
June 22, 1996... THE FINAL PAGES OF LIGHT IN AUGUST ARE DOMINATED BY Hightower's experience, and that experience culminates in a scene of visionary revelation that has never really been adequately accounted for in the larger context of the novel.(1) Sitting in...

Why I, a Woman of Color From India, Enjoy Teaching William Faulkner.
June 22, 1996... TO TEACH FAULKNER AS ONE AMONG MANY WRITERS IN A COURSE on twentieth century American literature or on the literature of the American South is one thing; to take pleasure in teaching him is another altogether. A mild form of treason, one might...

Insignificant Monkeys: Preaching Black English in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved.
June 22, 1996... My vulnerability would lie in romanticizing blackness rather than demonizing it; vilifying whiteness rather than reifying it. - Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark SPRING SEMESTER OF 1995, WHILE DISCUSSING PART FOUR OF The Sound and the...

Faulkner's Big Woods and the Historical Necessity of Revision.
June 22, 1996... SINCE 1955, WHEN WILLIAM FAULKNER PUBLISHED Big Woods, critics have compared it unfavorably to Go Down, Moses, the work from which it derives over half of its material.(1) Faulkner excised the powerful concerns of Go Down, Moses--racial...

Persons in Pieces: Race and Aphanisis in Light in August.
June 22, 1996... He turned the pages in steady progression, though now and then he would seem to linger upon one page, one line, perhaps one word. He would not look tip then. He would not move, apparently arrested and held immobile by a single word which had...

Jason's Role-Slippage: The Dynamics of Alcoholism in The Sound and the Fury.
June 22, 1996... "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge." Ezekiel 18:2 ARTHUR F. KINNEY POINTS OUT THAT WILLIAM Faulkner's entire career is "family-centered."(1) Seeing this truth within the dimensions of Family...

Faulkner's Black Holes: Vision and Vomit in Sanctuary.
June 22, 1996... I. "A power that disrupts the most well-ordered entrails."(1) To READ FAULKNER'S SANCTUARY (1931) IS TO RISK GOING CRAZY: this, at least, is what we must surmise from the testimony of the novel's early reviewers. Henry Seidel Canby insists...

Sutpen's Designs: Masculine Reproduction and the Unmaking of the Self-Made Man in Absalom, Absalom!
June 22, 1996... [T]he Archimedean paradox is... the paradox of the self-made man. The problem in mechanics is the appropriate form of the making of men in machine culture, the form of virgin birth propel' to that culture.... This is what sex in machine...

Margaret Mitchell's Review of Soldiers' Pay.
June 22, 1996... As JOSEPH BLOTNER DOCUMENTS, THE REVIEWS FOR Soldiers' Pay were quite good for a first novel. Although the novel was published on February 25, 1926, the earliest reviews that Blotner mentions did not appear until the first week in April, and...

Beyond Lexicon: Biblical "Allusion" in Faulkner.
June 22, 1996... THE MECHANICS OF "ALLUSION," AND ALSO OF INTERTEXTUALITY, THE broader category to which allusion belongs, are not well understood. As with the resemblances among human faces or human voices, we are likely to be able to sense far more than we...

The Hidden Caribbean "Other" in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Ideological Ancestry of U.S. Imperialism.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1996... AFRICAN BLOOD IN THE GUISE OF A SEDUCTIVE HAITIAN CREOLE seethes to the surface of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! in a Civil War era showdown between father and son, master and slave, colonizer and colony. In this ancestral conflict,...

A loss of innocence: the act of reading William Faulkner in a postmodern world.(Review)
June 22, 1996... A Loss of Innocence: The Act of Reading William Faulkner in a Postmodern World The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner, edited by Philip Weinstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. IF POSTMODERN THEORY HAS DONE ANYTHING...

Faulkner studies and ideology critique in the 1990s.(Review)
June 22, 1996... Faulkner Studies and Ideology Critique in the 1990s(1) Faulkner and Ideology: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1992, ed. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. 358 pp. PREVIOUS REVIEWERS AND...