SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: William Faulkner

»William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːknər/; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.« -- More information: Wikipedia

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Burton, Carmen S. Faulkner's Sexual Motifs in the Major Novels. Ph.D. Thesis, University of South Florida, 1984.

[Info] Sciuto, Jenna G. Postcolonial Palimpsests: Fragmented Subjectivities, Sexual Violence, and Colonial Inheritance in Tierno Monénembo, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, and William Faulkner. Ph.D. Thesis, Northeastern University, 2014.

[Info] Williams, Cameron E. "A Primitive and Frightening South": Gender and Sexual Violence in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Southern Fiction. Ph.D. Thesis, Florida State University, 2013.

II. Speaker Index

Dry September (Short Story)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»"Dry September" is a short story by William Faulkner. Published in 1931, it describes a lynch mob forming (despite ambiguous evidence) on a hot September evening to avenge an alleged (and unspecified) insult or attack upon a white woman by a black watchman, Will. Told in five parts, the story includes the perspective of the rumored female victim, Miss Minnie Cooper, and of the mob's leader, John McLendon. It is one of Faulkner's shorter stories.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Prosecution: Arbitrary Law: Lynching; Victim Testimonies: False Accusations; Cases: Fictional Victims: Minnie Cooper; Types: Rape: Interracial Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Amende, Kathaleen. »“A man with such an appearance was capable of anything”: Imaginary Rape and the Violent “Other” in Faulkner’s “Dry September” and Oz’s “Nomad and Viper”.« The Faulkner Journal 25 (2010): 9-22.

[Info] Kim, Mina »Physical and Verbal Violence in “Dry September”.« 영어영문학연구 43 (2017): 69-85.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Amende, Kathaleen E. »'A man with such an appearance was capable of anything': Imaginary Rape and the Violent 'Other' in William Faulkner's 'Dry September' and Amos Oz's 'Nomad and Viper'.« Faulkner and Twain Conference. 2006.

Flags in the Dust (Novel)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Flags in the Dust is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, completed in 1927. His publisher heavily edited the manuscript with Faulkner's reluctant consent, removing about 40,000 words in the process. That version was published as Sartoris in 1929. Faulkner's original manuscript of Flags in the Dust was published in 1973, and Sartoris was subsequently taken out of print.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Roberts, Diane. »Ravished belles. Stories of rape and resistance in Flags in the Dust and Sanctuary.« Faulkner journal 4 (1988-89): 21-35.

II. Speaker Index

Light in August (Novel)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Light in August is a 1932 novel by American author William Faulkner. It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres.
Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity. In a series of flashbacks, the story reveals how these two people are connected to another man who has deeply impacted both their lives.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham 2012.

[Info] Bush, Laura L. »A very American power struggle: the color of rape in Light in August.« Mississippi quarterly 51 (1998): 483-501.

[Info] Chavers, Linda D.M. Violent Disruptions: Richard Wright and William Faulkner's Racial Imaginations. Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, 2013.

II. Speaker Index

Sanctuary (Novel)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Sanctuary is a 1931 novel by American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of an upper-class Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. The novel was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough and established his literary reputation, but was controversial given its themes. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit, but this has been debated by scholars and Faulkner's own friends.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Barker, Deborah E. »Moonshine and Magnolias: The Story of Temple Drake and The Birth of a Nation.« The Faulkner Journal 22 (2006): 140-175.

[Info] Barker, Deborah E. »Moonshine and Magnolias: The Story of Temple Drake and The Birth of a Nation.« Faulkner and Whiteness. Edited by Jay Watson. Jackson 2011: 107-146.

[Info] Barnett, Pamela E. The Language of Rape: Sexual Violence in Novels by Faulkner, Naylor and Morrison. Ph.D. Thesis, Emory University, 1996.

[Info] Bauer, Margaret D. William Faulkner's Legacy: "What shadow, what stain, what mark". Gainesville 2005.

[Info] Degenfelder, E. Pauline. »The Four Faces of Temple Drake: Faulkner's Sanctuary, Requiem for a Nun, and the Two Film Adaptations.« American Quarterly 28 (1977): 544-560.

[Info] Dunleavy, Linda. »Sanctuary, sexual difference, and the problem of rape.« Studies in American fiction 24 (1996): 171-191.

[Info] Duvall, John N. Faulkner's Marginal Couple and the Community. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986.

[Info] Garnier, Caroline P. Woman and trauma in William Faulkner’s fiction. Ann Arbor 2002.

[Info] Pettey, Homer B. Faulkner and Fetishism. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Arizona, 1989.

[Info] Roberts, Diane. »Ravished belles. Stories of rape and resistance in Flags in the Dust and Sanctuary.« Faulkner journal 4 (1988-89): 21-35.

[Info] Slater, Tracy L. Essential wounds, obscure crimes. Sexual violence and victimhood in the early twentieth century American novel. Ann Arbor 1999.

[Info] Tanner, Laura E. »Reading rape. Sanctuary and The Women of Brewster Place.« American literature 62 (1990): 559-582.

[Info] Tanner, Laura E. »Reading rape. Sanctuary and The Women of Brewster Place.« Douze lectures de Sanctuaire. Edited by André Bleikasten et al. Rennes 1995: 187-204.

II. Speaker Index