New Essays on Go Down, Moses

by Linda Wagner-Martin (Editor)

Overview

Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the second world war and was written during one of Faulkner's most traumatic periods, yet it has fallen to critical neglect amid the vast scholarship on the great Southern writer. In part, this collection aims to tilt the balance, forcing the reader beyond critical commonplaces through asking challenging questions. The five essays assembled here explore the tensions of race and gender apparent throughout the novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521454315
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/13/1996
Series:	The American Novel
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Linda Wagner-Martin; 2. Touching race in Go Down, Moses John T. Matthews; 3. Go Down, Moses and the discourse of environmentalism Judith Bryant Wittenberg; 4. Her shape, his hand: the spaces of African American women in Go Down, Moses Minrose Gwin; 5. Who wears the mask? memory, desire, and race in Go Down, Moses Judith L. Sensibar; 6. The game of courts: Go Down, Moses, arbitrary legalities, and compensatory boundaries Thadious M. Davis.