{"product_id":"fictions-of-labor-william-faulkner-and-the-souths-long-revolution-paperback-9780521044271","title":"Fictions of Labor; William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521044271","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFictions of Labor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWilliam Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of William Faulkner's writing and issues of labour in the American South.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Godden (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521044271, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 October 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labour dependency in the Southern economy from the antebellum period through to the New Deal. This book seeks to link stylistic aspects of Faulkner's writing to a generative social trauma which constitutes its formal core. That trauma, Godden argues, is a labour trauma, centred on the debilitating discovery by the Southern owning class of its own production by those it subordinates. Using close textual analysis and careful historical contextualization, Richard Godden produces a persuasive account of the ways in which Faulkner's work rests on deeply submerged anxieties about the legacy of violently coercive labour relations in the American South.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Quentin Compson: Tyrrhenian vase or crucible of race?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Absalom, Absalom! Haiti and labor history: reading unreadable revolutions\u003cbr\u003e 3. Absalom, Absalom! and Rosa Coldfield: or, 'What is in the Dark House?'\u003cbr\u003e 4. The persistence of Thomas Sutpen: Absalom, Absalom!, time, and labor discipline\u003cbr\u003e 5. Forget Jerusalem, go to Hollywood - 'To Die. Yes. To Die?' (A coda to Absalom, Absalom!)\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography of works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006036496664,"sku":"9780521044271","price":28.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521044271i_203b4b33-5cb2-4a01-9548-400708e217a8.jpg?v=1694968628","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fictions-of-labor-william-faulkner-and-the-souths-long-revolution-paperback-9780521044271","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}