Thursday, October 10 at 4:00, LC 317. The Americanist Colloquium presents: New Approaches to William Faulkner a discussion featuring Thadious Davis, Richard Godden, and Wai Chee Dimock.
Thadious Davis (University of Pennsylvania), author of Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature (2011), Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (2003), Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance (1994) and Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context (1982).
Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University), author of Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (2006) and Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (1996).
Richard Godden (University of California, Irvine), author of William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words (2007), Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South’s Long Revolution (1997), and Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer (1990).
Candace Waid (University of California, Santa Barbara), author of The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner’s Art (2013) and winner of The Faulkner Journal’s Hinkle Memorial Prize for a lasting contribution to Faulkner scholarship.
Moderated by Caleb Smith (Yale University).
The symposium will be a general discussion of the evolving critical conversation about Faulkner’s work. In preparation for the event, attendees are invited to read works in progress by Godden and Waid (attached), a piece by Davis (forthcoming soon!) and an interview with Dimock (online: http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/debate_deep_time_and_the_transnational/).