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Yoknapatawpha Blues : Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Roots Music /
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,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The rise of the boll weevil
- Homers of the cotton fields: William Faulkner and the blues in twentieth-century America
- Backwater rising, men sinking down: the great Mississippi flood in "Old man" and "High water everywhere"
- See my baby from the other side: the ghosts of lynching in "That evening sun" and "Last kind words blues"
- All my shrimps was dead and gone: male sexual dysfunction in sanctuary and "Dead shrimp blues"
- Lost lightning: self-reflexivity and southern nostalgia in The back door wolf and The reivers
- Conclusion: A long loop down into the Delta.