... of the marvelous in the Caribbean selva , Ikoku suggests that Breton, Masson, and Carpentier were each committed to a territorialization of the Antilles, and as alternatives, he offers Lam's translation of Aimé Césaire and Edouard Glissant's explorations of William Faulkner—both attempts to deterritorialize...

... inescapable enmeshment of blackness and whiteness within the Plantation walls. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 “We are all related”: Edouard Glissant Meets Octavia Butler Valérie Loichot Mita kuye oyasin . . . we are all related. —Edouard Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi So many relatives that I had...

... includes the poetics of William Faulkner in the world of this Other America. Indeed, the book-length study that he devoted to the writing of Faulkner clearly illustrates just how pivotal he consid- ers Faulkner’s poetics to be for an understanding of the Other America.14 Developing further his...

... of the word as conveyor of meaning by privileging intuition and the senses in the Martinican’s effort toward linguistic representation. Glissant makes this clear in Faulkner, Mississippi: “For those of us who are Caribbean, our prophetic vision of the past makes us hear (‘the eye listens...

... more interested in the larger philosophical concepts inherent in the books he discussed than in the language in which these concepts were presented. He was particularly interested in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom , which he had read in French translation, for its disruption of lineal descent...

... extent inspired by William Faulkner, whom Glissant of course greatly admired, but produces a rather different effect. In Glissant’s novels it creates 1 Edouard Glissant, La Lézarde (Paris: Seuil, 1958; Gallimard, 1994); Le quatrième siècle (Paris: Seuil, 1964; Gallimard, 1994); Malemort (Paris...

... of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (2007). She has also published essays on Caribbean literature and culture, Southern literature, creolization theory, transatlantic studies, feminism and exile, and food studies, in Callaloo, Etudes francophones, Francographies, French Cultural 188...

... it in our own individual way. In other words we all position ourselves in a completely erratic and unpredictable way, in relation to this world-object. MM: Last night you quoted Faulkner, saying that in literature, the more flagrant the failure, the more worthy the attempt. Which...

...”), and the awakening of “conscience” (both moral conscience and consciousness). Glissant, we learn, introduced Chamoiseau to Perse, as well as to William Faulkner, Victor Segalen, and “mille autres encore” (thousands of others), including, we may surmise, René Char (13). After referring to his rereading of Char...

... a reconnu, dans Faulkner, Mississippi (1996), la dette contractée à l’égard du grand romancier américain, l’auteur de Sanctuaire (1931), de Lumière d’août (1932), d’Absalon ! Absalon ! (1936), et de tant d’autres chefs-d’œuvre. Le système du roman propre à Edouard Glissant a deux caractéristiques : au...

... in the United States during the 1980s. Drawing, in the manner of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying , on the voices of twelve different narrators, James’s novel culls perspectives from every strata of Kingston society, plus from those of three American outsiders and one Cuban, to represent the multifacetedness...

..., the title focuses on the Americas, as does his subsequent work on Faulkner. As concerns Haiti, one might argue that indigénisme, and “the so-called mouvement folkorique,” constituted the last major “secular” discussion of a Haitian aesthetic system as related to “Africa.” According to Kate...

... works by Glissant: Caribbean Discourse, trans. J. Michael Dash (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989); Poetics of Relation, trans. Betsy Wing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997); Faulkner, Mississippi, trans. Barbara Lewis and Th omas C. Spear (New York: Farrar...

.... RRowanowan RRicardoicardo Marble like Greece, like Faulkner’s South in stone, PPhillipshillips Deciduous beauty prospered and is gone³⁶ Appropriately, the blank page in search of something that will suffi ce...

... genealogy that ties together writers as diverse as Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner but also about more recent experimentations by such writers as Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Junot Díaz, and so on). But, as Kamau Brathwaite’s seminal essay...

... that unfolds as the first act. The notion of “theatrical novel” may describe a wide array of texts in which narrative and dramatic conventions are both present. William Faulkner's novel Requiem for a Nun (1951), for example, alternates between prose narration and dramatic dialogue and didascalia...

... Carpentier, La ciudad de las columnas (Havana: Instituto del Libro, 1998); Joseph Hergesheimer, San Cristóbal de la Habana (New York: Knopf, 1920), 13. San Cristóbal de la Habana is something of an underground and out-of-print classic, admired by William Faulkner, G. Cabrera Infante...

... in the wake of Joyce, Proust and Faulkner If they were the Fieldings and Smolletts, they could only be so as their modernist, colonial, displaced, nonwhite incarnations. 9. Sidney Mintz, Caribbean Transformations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989), 115. 10. “It is not often recognized...

....” We know this from the excerpts from a letter published by the Chicago Defender at the height of the Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935. The letter was addressed to E. H. Faulkner, a black news dealer on State Street in Chicago, who turned the letter over to the Chicago Defender, which then used...