BLACK FEMINISM AND THE CANON: FAULKNER'S ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND MORRISON'S BELOVED AS GOTHIC ROMANCES

From: The Faulkner Journal | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In the 1940s, when the New Critics first established the canonical status of William Faulkner's work, they claimed that it reveals what Robert Penn Warren called the "moral confusion" of the "modern world," which can "look back nostalgically upon the old world of traditional values and feel loss and perhaps despair" (112). In the 1990s, when the success of the black feminist Toni Morrison had generated important new studies of her work and Faulkner's, scholars suggest that, as Carol A. Kolmerton says, "Read together, the fiction of Faulkner and Morrison offers a richly varied and profoundly ...

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