William Faulkner reprised: isolation in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.(Critical essay)

From: The Mississippi Quarterly | Date: December 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

A CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF ALMOST ANY AUTHOR IN CONJUNCTION WITH modernist giant William Faulkner risks treating Faulkner's work as a master text. This potential for privilege perhaps accounts for Toni Morrison's sensitivity to such comparisons early in her writing career. One can practically hear the irritation in her voice when she stated in a 1983 interview with Nellie McKay, "I am not like James Joyce; I am not like Thomas Hardy; I am not like Faulkner. I am not like in that sense" (152). Morrison has elsewhere said, "I'm not sure that he [Faulkner] had any effect on my work" ...

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