Title: History, Fiction, Autobiography: William Faulkner’s ‘Mississippi’
Abstract: This essay considers issues of history and memory, and autobiography and fiction in William Faulkner’s ‘Mississippi’ and considers Faulkner’s position as a writer and historian of the South. It interrogates the moments in which Faulkner’s representation of his family, his history and his memory slips between the personal and the historical or collective. It further argues that Faulkner’s experience of memory and race as a white Southerner complicates his representation of his family, his identity and particularly, his relationship with his family’s black domestic or Mammy, Caroline Barr, revealing his implication in Southern mythmaking in his fictional and autobiographical writing.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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