Fictions of labor : William Faulkner and the South's long revolution / Richard Godden.

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Godden, Richard, 1946-

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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 108.Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (x, 288 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511005237
9780511005237
9780521561426
0521561426

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fictions of labor.DDC classification:

813/.52 20

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PS3511.A86 Z7834 1997eb

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Contents:

Quentin Compson: tyrrhenian vase or crucible of race? -- Absalom, absalom!, Haiti, and labor history: reading unreadable revolutions -- Absalom, absalom! and Rosa Coldfield: or, "What is in the dark house?" -- The persistence of Thomas Sutpen: Absalom, absalom!, time, and labor discipline -- Forget Jerusalem, go to Hollywood -- "To die. Yes. To die?" (a coda to Absalom, absalom!).

Summary: Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labor dependency in the southern economy from the antebellum period through the New Deal. Linking the occlusive stylistics of Faulkner's writings to a generative social trauma that constitutes its formal core, Richard Godden argues that this trauma is a labor trauma, centered on the debilitating discovery by the southern owning class of its own production by those it subordinates. By way of close textual analysis and careful historical contextualization, Fictions of Labor produces a persuasive account of the ways in which Faulkner's work rests on deeply submerged anxieties about the legacy of violently coercive labor relations in the American South.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index.

Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labor dependency in the southern economy from the antebellum period through the New Deal. Linking the occlusive stylistics of Faulkner's writings to a generative social trauma that constitutes its formal core, Richard Godden argues that this trauma is a labor trauma, centered on the debilitating discovery by the southern owning class of its own production by those it subordinates. By way of close textual analysis and careful historical contextualization, Fictions of Labor produces a persuasive account of the ways in which Faulkner's work rests on deeply submerged anxieties about the legacy of violently coercive labor relations in the American South.