Faulkner Welty Wright

Contributions by Anita DeRouen Susan V. Donaldson Julia Eichelberger W. Ralph Eubanks Sarah Gilbreath Ford Bernard T. Joy John Wharton Lowe Anne MacMaster Rebecca Mark Suzanne Marrs Donnie McMahand Kevin Murphy Harriet Pollack Annette Trefzer Jay Watson and Ryoichi Yamane <p/> Working closely in each other's orbit in Mississippi William Faulkner Eudora Welty and Richard Wright created lasting portraits of southern culture each from a distinctly different vantage point. Taking into consideration their personal political and artistic ways of responding to the histories and realities of their time and place <i>Faulkner Welty Wright: A Mississippi Confluence</i> offers comparative scholarship that forges new connections--or as Welty might say traces new confluences--across texts authors identities and traditions. <p/> In the collection contributors discuss Faulkner's <i>Light in August</i>; <i>Sanctuary</i>; <i>Go Down Moses</i>; <i>As I Lay Dying</i>; A Rose for Emily; and That Evening Sun; Welty's <i>One Writer's Beginnings</i>;<i> One Time One Place</i>;<i> The Optimist's Daughter</i>;<i> Losing Battles</i>; Why I Live at the P.O.; Livvie; Moon Lake; The Burning; Where Is the Voice Coming From?; and The Demonstrators; and Wright's <i>Native Son</i>; <i>The Long Dream</i>; <i>12 Million Black Voices</i>;<i> Black Boy</i>; <i>Lawd Today!</i>; The Man Who Lived Underground; The Ethics of Living Jim Crow; and Long Black Song. <p/>Acknowledging that Mississippi ground was never level for any of the three writers the fourteen essays in this volume turn from the familiar strategies of single-author criticism toward a mode of analysis more receptive to the fluid mergings of creative currents placing Wright Welty and Faulkner in comparative relationship to each other as well as to other Mississippi writers such as Margaret Walker Lewis Nordan Natasha Trethewey Jesmyn Ward Steve Yarbrough and Kiese Laymon. Doing so deepens and enriches our understanding of these literary giants and the Mississippi modernism they made together.