Yoknapatawpha blues : Faulkner's fiction and southern roots music

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Label

Yoknapatawpha blues : Faulkner's fiction and southern roots music

Title remainder

Faulkner's fiction and southern roots music

Statement of responsibility

Tim A. Ryan

Creator

• Ryan, Tim A., 1971-

Author

• Ryan, Tim A., 1971-

Subject

• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
• History
• Music and literature
• Music and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• United States
• 1900 - 1999
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

During the 1920s and 1930s, Mississippi produced two of the most significant influences upon twentieth-century culture: the modernist fiction of William Faulkner and the recorded blues songs of African American musicians like Charley Patton, Geeshie Wiley, and Robert Johnson. In Yoknapatawpha Blues, the first book examining both Faulkner and the music of the south, Tim A. Ryan identifies provocative parallels of theme and subject in diverse regional genres and texts. Placing Faulkner{u2019}s literary texts and prewar country blues song lyrics on equal footing, Ryan illuminates the meanings of both in new and unexpected ways. He provides close analysis of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 in Faulkner{u2019}s 2Old Man3 and Patton{u2019}s 2High Water Everywhere3; racial violence in the story 2That Evening Sun3 and Wiley{u2019}s 2Last Kind Words Blues3; and male sexual dysfunction in Sanctuary and Johnson{u2019}s 2Dead Shrimp Blues.3 This interdisciplinary study reveals how the characters of Yoknapatawpha County and the protagonists in blues songs similarly strive to assert themselves in a threatening and oppressive world. By emphasizing the modernism found in blues music and the echoes of black vernacular culture in Faulkner{u2019}s writing, Yoknapatawpha Blues links elucidates the impact of both Faulkner{u2019}s fiction and roots music on the culture of the modern South, and of the nation. --Provided by publisher

Member of

• Southern literary studies

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.52

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3511.A86

LC item number

Z965276 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Southern literary studies