“MEMORY BELIEVES BEFORE KNOWING REMEMBERS”: EVANESCENCE AND /OR ENDURANCE IN WILLIAM FAULKNER
My paper focuses on one of William Faulkner’s masterpieces, Light in August (1932). Literary ambiguity employed at its best renders this text inexhaustible. Aspects of identity - race, gender, religion – may offer various approaches; yet, as I would like to argue, they will not work as absolute clue...
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| description | My paper focuses on one of William Faulkner’s masterpieces, Light in August (1932). Literary ambiguity employed at its best renders this text inexhaustible. Aspects of identity - race, gender, religion – may offer various approaches; yet, as I would like to argue, they will not work as absolute clues to this enigmatic book. For a critical and theoretic background, I shall resort here to Toni Morrison’s set of academic essays (and former lectures) Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992). The strange thing about this tiny volume of Toni Morrison’s – the professor – is that it never mentions Faulkner’s Light in August; and yet it is here that her demonstration finds the most compelling set of arguments, as if the two books were in some mysterious resonance with each other. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5309cd038e274011a609834343e8e7212023-11-02T10:22:42ZengBucharest University PressUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series2734-59632022-02-01XI/20092“MEMORY BELIEVES BEFORE KNOWING REMEMBERS”: EVANESCENCE AND /OR ENDURANCE IN WILLIAM FAULKNERAnca Peiu0University of Bucharest; Romania.My paper focuses on one of William Faulkner’s masterpieces, Light in August (1932). Literary ambiguity employed at its best renders this text inexhaustible. Aspects of identity - race, gender, religion – may offer various approaches; yet, as I would like to argue, they will not work as absolute clues to this enigmatic book. For a critical and theoretic background, I shall resort here to Toni Morrison’s set of academic essays (and former lectures) Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992). The strange thing about this tiny volume of Toni Morrison’s – the professor – is that it never mentions Faulkner’s Light in August; and yet it is here that her demonstration finds the most compelling set of arguments, as if the two books were in some mysterious resonance with each other. http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Anca-Peiu_2_2009.pdfdarknessafricanismambiguityracegenderreligionselfothernessidentitytemporality. |
| spellingShingle | Anca Peiu “MEMORY BELIEVES BEFORE KNOWING REMEMBERS”: EVANESCENCE AND /OR ENDURANCE IN WILLIAM FAULKNER University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series darkness africanism ambiguity race gender religion self otherness identity temporality. |
| title | “MEMORY BELIEVES BEFORE KNOWING REMEMBERS”: EVANESCENCE AND /OR ENDURANCE IN WILLIAM FAULKNER |
| title_full | “MEMORY BELIEVES BEFORE KNOWING REMEMBERS”: EVANESCENCE AND /OR ENDURANCE IN WILLIAM FAULKNER |
| title_fullStr | “MEMORY BELIEVES BEFORE KNOWING REMEMBERS”: EVANESCENCE AND /OR ENDURANCE IN WILLIAM FAULKNER |
| title_full_unstemmed | “MEMORY BELIEVES BEFORE KNOWING REMEMBERS”: EVANESCENCE AND /OR ENDURANCE IN WILLIAM FAULKNER |
| title_short | “MEMORY BELIEVES BEFORE KNOWING REMEMBERS”: EVANESCENCE AND /OR ENDURANCE IN WILLIAM FAULKNER |
| title_sort | memory believes before knowing remembers evanescence and or endurance in william faulkner |
| topic | darkness africanism ambiguity race gender religion self otherness identity temporality. |
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