Book contents
- The New William Faulkner Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New William Faulkner Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Approaches
- Chapter 1 Faulkner and Formalism
- Chapter 2 Faulkner and Modernist Gothic
- Chapter 3 “[T]he critic must leave the Western hemisphere”: Faulkner and World Literature
- Chapter 4 Faulkner and Print Culture
- Chapter 5 Faulkner After Morrison
- Chapter 6 Faulkner’s Acoustics, or Minor Sound
- Part II Cultures
- Part III Interfaces
- Index
Chapter 3 - “[T]he critic must leave the Western hemisphere”: Faulkner and World Literature
from Part I - Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2022
Book contents
- The New William Faulkner Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New William Faulkner Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Approaches
- Chapter 1 Faulkner and Formalism
- Chapter 2 Faulkner and Modernist Gothic
- Chapter 3 “[T]he critic must leave the Western hemisphere”: Faulkner and World Literature
- Chapter 4 Faulkner and Print Culture
- Chapter 5 Faulkner After Morrison
- Chapter 6 Faulkner’s Acoustics, or Minor Sound
- Part II Cultures
- Part III Interfaces
- Index
Summary
“[W]hy are the writers of the Third World so fascinated with Faulkner?” asks Guinean novelist Tierno Monénembo in his essay describing William Faulkner’s influence on his writing.1 He claims that this fascination results from the fact that Faulkner “tackles the two primordial questions of the literature of young nations: language and the relationship with history.
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- The New William Faulkner Studies , pp. 51 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022