Gay Faulkner : uncovering a homosexual presence in Yoknapatawpha and beyond / Phillip Gordon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.Description: xv, 279 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781496825971
  • 1496825977
  • 9781496825988
  • 1496825985
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.52 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3511.A86 Z7837 2020
Contents:
Introduction -- Quair Faulkner -- Queer Faulkner -- Gay Faulkner -- Cadet Faulkner -- Queer soldiers -- Gay Darl -- La Vita Nuova -- The Faulkner we know and do not know -- V. K. Ratliff, a Biography
Summary: The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of American and world literature. However, some details on Faulkner's life collected by his early biographers never made it into published form or, when they did, appeared in marginalized stories and cryptic references. The biographical record of his life has yet to come to terms with the lifelong friendships he maintained with gay men, the extent to which he immersed himself into gay communities in Greenwich Village and New Orleans, and how profoundly this part of his life influenced his "apocryphal" creation of Yoknapatawpha County. This book explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men, among them Ben Wasson, William Spratling, and Hubert Creekmore, and places his fiction into established canons of LGBTQ literature, including World War I literature and representations of homosexuality from the Cold War. Offers a full consideration of his relationship to gay history and identity in the 20th century, giving rise to a new understanding of this quite important American author.--Adapted from publisher information.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-273) and index.

Introduction -- Quair Faulkner -- Queer Faulkner -- Gay Faulkner -- Cadet Faulkner -- Queer soldiers -- Gay Darl -- La Vita Nuova -- The Faulkner we know and do not know -- V. K. Ratliff, a Biography

The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of American and world literature. However, some details on Faulkner's life collected by his early biographers never made it into published form or, when they did, appeared in marginalized stories and cryptic references. The biographical record of his life has yet to come to terms with the lifelong friendships he maintained with gay men, the extent to which he immersed himself into gay communities in Greenwich Village and New Orleans, and how profoundly this part of his life influenced his "apocryphal" creation of Yoknapatawpha County. This book explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men, among them Ben Wasson, William Spratling, and Hubert Creekmore, and places his fiction into established canons of LGBTQ literature, including World War I literature and representations of homosexuality from the Cold War. Offers a full consideration of his relationship to gay history and identity in the 20th century, giving rise to a new understanding of this quite important American author.--Adapted from publisher information.

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