Center for Faulkner Studies

Very excited to finally receive copies of our Faulkner and Morrison book translated into Chinese! All of our great contributors to this volume now have their work shared with Chinese Faulkner scholars.

Coming up next week. Should be a great event and still some space left if you want to attend (virtually, of course).

Bob Hamblin's Faulkner biography has been translated and published in China. Congrats, Bob!

To promote our newly released book _Faulkner and Garcia Marquez_ , we are highlighting one essay each day. Last, but not least, is Pei-Wen Klio Cao's "Silence and Beauty: Unrepresentable Race and Nature in Faulkner’s _Go Down, Moses_" Kao employs Susan Sontag’s notion of silence as the essence of art as a way of understanding race and nature in Faulkner’s _Go Down, Moses_. She finds multiple African American and mixed-race characters to be haunting presences in the novel, silent reminders of marginalized voices whose otherness is linked to the otherness of the natural world. It's another strong essay in a great collection. Order today through the link, and thanks to all of our contributors for helping create a wonderful book.

To promote our brand new collection _Faulkner and Garcia Marquez_, we are highlighting one essay each day from the collection. Today, it's Phillip 'Pip' Gordon's "The Geography of Death in Faulkner’s _As I Lay Dying_ and García Márquez’s _The General in His Labyrinth_." In this probing essay, Gordon questions the limits of comparative approaches while also exploring affinities between two novels that deal with similar themes in similar ways. Cautious about assuming influence ...and wary of what similarities between authors really mean, Gordon nonetheless finds compelling parallels in the authors’ treatments of death and decaying bodies moving through specific landscapes in their respective novels. Oh, and it's also Pip's birthday today. What he wants for his birthday is for everyone who sees this to buy a copy of the book (and maybe one of his books too). Happy birthday, Pip!

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Continuing to promote the new _Faulkner and Garcia Marquez_, we are highlighting one essay from the book each day. Today it's Conor Picken's "Fatality Makes Us Invisible: Narrating the Visual in Faulkner and García Márquez." Picken applies Foucault’s notions of the panopticon, surveillance, and discipline to Garcia Marquez’s _Chronicle of a Death Foretold_ to implicate the entire town in Santiago Nasar’s death. He then explores how surveillance, miscegenation, and lynching connect Garcia Marquez’s story with Faulkner’s _Sanctuary_ and _Light in August_. Another creative and intelligent pairing of these two Nobel Prize winners. Get your copy today!

As we continue to promote our newly published _Faulkner and Garcia Marquez_, we highlight one essay per day from the book. Today, it's Terrell Tebetts' "The West Is Dead but What Is Ahead? Faulkner and García Márquez on the Rough Beast of Global Capitalism." Tebbetts explores Faulkner’s critiques of global capitalism in _As I Lay Dying_, situating the novel in the contexts of World War I, the Lost Generation, and modernism. He then examines how Faulkner’s saga of the Bundren family’s clash with modernity may have echoes in Garcia Marquez’s _One Hundred Years of Solitude_. It's another fascinating comparison of these two authors--and one in which bananas feature prominently. Order your copy through the link to read more!

Call For Papers Cognitive Faulkner 2021 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting Semianr (Virtual) April 811, 2021... **Submission Deadline October 31, 2020 via ACLA submission portal** Memory believes before knowing remembers, believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. In this passage from Light in August, Faulkner articulates a theory of memory’s persistence. His recognition that emotionally charged memories linger even as details fade is why, for Faulkner, the past is never dead. It’s not even past. This seminar asks how sensory perception in Faulkner’s work intersects with cognitive memory studies and the current historical moment. With its diachronic reach and polyphonic narration, Faulkner’s oeuvre illustrates how past trauma lives on in ‘individual’ minds and bleeds through generations. Reading Faulkner in light of the Black Lives Matter movement, whose exigencies include a reckoning with the fact that the US’ past is not even past, and cognitive studies, we aim to address the relationship between memory, time and race with attention to the construction of characters' minds. Topics may include: How race, gender, class, and culture shape embodied cognition and emotion Memory, denial, and trauma Faulkner and African American literature Cross-cultural and comparative readings of Faulkner and cognition Translation as an inflective prism of memory in the mind Interested scholars are welcome to submit papers at the through the ACLA submission portal and to contact co-organizers Aili Pettersson Peeker, PhD Candidate in English, UCSB ([email protected]), and John Schranck, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, UCSB ([email protected]).

To celebrate and promote our newly published book, _Faulkner and Garcia Marquez_, we are highlighting one essay each day, and today it's the contribution from the CFS director Chris Rieger, 'The Front Door and the Back Door of the World': Flowers, Sex, and Death in Faulkner and García Márquez." This essay suggests that both authors employ and update classical connections of sex and death, specifically through their respective use of flowers as symbols of feminine sexuality. ...He argues that both authors depict patriarchal cultures that seek to stifle women’s sexuality but that both writers sympathize with their female characters who are victimized by the patriarchy. Rieger concludes with an intertextual reading of _The Sound and the Fury_ and _Chronicle of a Death Foretold_ that suggests a possible identity of Angela's unnamed sexual partner. See more