A Gathering of Evidence: Essays on William Faulkner's 'Intruder in the Dust'

by Michel Gresset (Editor), Patrick Samway S.J. (Editor)

Overview

This book gathers together twelve recent and classic essays on Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, which he termed a mystery-murderwhose theme concerns a relationship between Negro and white, specifically or rather the premise being that the white people in the south, before the North or the govt. or anyone else, owe and must pay a responsibility to the Negro.These essays provide a rich set of resources to teachers who wish to assign this text, as well as to provide food for thought and discussion to individual readers and scholars of Faulkner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780916101466
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2004
Edition description:	1
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michel Gresset is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the Institut d'Anglais Charles V of the University Denis Diderot (Paris VII), the author of Fascination: Faulkner's Fiction, 1919-1936.

Patrick Samway, S.J., is Professor of English and Director of the Fellowships Office at Saint Joseph's University. Among his publications is Walker Percy: A Life and, co-edited with Michel Gresset, Faulkner and Ideology: Perspectives from Paris.

Table of Contents

	List of Authors	vii
	Introduction	ix
1	The Community in Action	1
2	Man on the Margin: Lucas Beauchamp and the Limitations of Space	17
3	Eunice Habersham's Lessons in Intruder in the Dust	37
4	Teaching Intruder in the Dust Through Its Political and Historical Context"	57
5	Race Fantasies: The Filming of Intruder in the Dust	75
6	Negotiating the National Voice in Faulkner's Late Work	97
7	Faulkner's Comic Narrative of Community	131
8	Contextualizing Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust: Sherlock Holmes, Chick Mallison, Decolonization, and Change	151
9	Man in the Middle: Faulkner and the Southern White Moderate	167
10	Intruder in the Dust: A Re-evaluation	189
11	Faulkner and the Post-Confederate	225
12	"The Sum of Your Ancestry": Cultural Context and Intruder in the Dust	247
	Permissions	259