Call for papers for session on William Faulkner as a major American author
at the 9th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and
Literature--SUNY Cortland, October 3-5, 1999. Presentations should be 15
minutes in length.
While this is an open call, special consideration will be given to papers
that address the following issues:
* Constructing "Faulkner": Responses to the following statement by Michael
Kreyling regarding the function of Faulkner as Southern writer: "William
Faulkner unwittingly left to southern literary history and criticism a
'perfect exemplar' that goes by the same name as the writer but is not the
actual person: 'Faulkner' rather than William Cuthbert Fa(u)lkner...Inside
the quotation marks differences succumb to an orderly achievement, 'the
all-pervasive, dominating presence' that rolls the rough places flat and
paves the way smooth for the critical project. If the 'South' is a cultural
entity, then 'Faulkner' is its official language."
* Gothic Faulkner: How does Faulkner (re)congigure the American Gothic
tradition in his fiction? How does his work influence contemporary gothic
writers (or does it)?
* Faulkner and Race: While the majority of race/ethnicity criticism
concerning Faulkner's work stresses black/white relations, what can we
learn from his constructions of the 'other' Others: American Indians,
Asian-Americans, Italian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, etc. ? What about
his conceptualizations of "white trash"? How do these representations
inform current scholarship on "Whiteness"? For example, is Faulkner, in
Noel Ignatiev's words, a "race traitor"? Or is he just "playing in the
dark"?
*Teaching Faulkner: What pedagogical strategies
complement/complicate/undermine contemporary cultural studies approaches to
Faulkner and his work? What are the strengths/weaknesses of these
approaches? What might be some reading/writing assignments that allow
students to move beyond strict hermeneutic interpretations of Faulkner's
work and into lines of inquiry that Steve Mailloux and others refer to as
"rhetorical hermeneutics"?
Please send 300-400 word abstracts by July 1 to:
Bruce G. Johnson
Department of English
Independence Hall
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Address *inquiries only* (no abstracts, please) to:
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