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The fifteen essays in this collection explore the resonant intertextual relationship between the fiction of William Faulkner and that of Toni Morrison. Although the two writers are separated by a generation as well as by differences of race, gender, and regional origin, this close critical examination of the creative dialogue between their oeuvres is both timely and appropriate. Toni Morrison's brilliant and powerful novels of the past two decades have accorded her a position in the front ranks of American writers, and like Faulkner before her, she has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. She has publicly acknowledged her artistic indebtedness to Faulkner on a number of occasions. But Morrison also resists the Faulknerian heritage in profound ways. This resistance is certainly, in part at least, the natural reluctance of any highly original artist to be regarded as the product of her predecessor's influence. This push-pull of Morrison's acceptance of and resistance to the Faulknerian heritage provides a major source for the critical energy exhibited in this collection. Each contributor, whether addressing broad, general issues in both writers or whether detailing similarities and differences in particular works, finds that the authors illuminate each other. No reader of Faulkner will ever read him in the same way after encountering Morrison. Carol A. Kolmerten is a professor of English at Hood College. Stephen M. Ross is director of the Office of Challenge Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the coauthor of Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury. Judith Bryant Wittenberg is a professor and chair of the English department at Simmons College.

Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Refusing to Look Away ix

Carol A. Kolmerten

Stephen M. Ross

Judith Bryant Wittenberg
Part I Intertextuality

Toni Morrison and the Anxiety of Faulknerian Influence 3(14)

John N. Duvall

The Long, High Gaze: The Mythical Consciousness of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner 17(14)

Carolyn Denard

Toni Morrison and William Faulkner: Remapping Culture 31(17)

Andrea Dimino

David and Solomon: Fathering in Faulkner and Morrison 48(29)

Philip M. Weinstein
Part II Pairings

Riff, Refrain, Reframe: Toni Morrison's Song of Absalom 77(14)

Nancy Ellen Batty

Narrative Time/Spiritual Text: Beloved and As I Lay Dying 91(8)

Karla F. C. Holloway

The Grandfather Clause: Reading the Legacy from ``The Bear'' to Song of Solomon 99(16)

Lucinda H. MacKethan

Black Matters on the Dixie Limited: As I Lay Dying and The Bluest Eye 115(13)

Theresa M. Towner

Untold Stories: Black Daughters in Absalom, Absalom! and The Bluest Eye 128(11)

Keith E. Byerman

Reading for the ``Other Side'': Beloved and Requiem for a Nun 139(13)

Doreen Fowler

History and Story, Sign and Design: Faulknerian and Postmodern Voices in Jazz 152(15)

Roberta Rubenstein
Part III Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved

Built on the Ashes: The Fall of the House of Sutpen and the Rise of the House of Sethe 167(14)

Michael Hogan

A Postmodern Absalom, Absalom!, a Modern Beloved: The Dialectic of Form 181(18)

Catherine Gunther Kodat

Signifying Silences: Morrison's Soundings in the Faulknerian Void 199(20)

Phillip Novak
Coda

Faulkner in Light of Morrison 219(10)

Patrick O'Donnell
Contributors 229(4)
Works Cited 233(12)
Index 245

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