{"title":"Red Laughter:","authors":"J. Lowe","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124281828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Brother: Is This Truth?”:","authors":"Katherine M. B. Osburn","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128863036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Valid Signature”:","authors":"A. Trefzer","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":" 29","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114060583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doom and Deliverance:","authors":"M. Taylor","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132617225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Souths as Prologues:","authors":"Jodi A. Byrd","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130361493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Mausoleum to a Spider Web:","authors":"M. R. Anderson","doi":"10.2307/J.CTVDF0MP1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVDF0MP1.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121877505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wild and the Tame:","authors":"R. Ethridge","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdf0mp1.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122222444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-05DOI: 10.14325/MISSISSIPPI/9781496818096.003.0007
Katherine M. B. Osburn
This essay approaches Faulkner’s stories about Mississippi Indians from the perspective of a historian of the Native South. It discusses shifting ideas about the role of narrative in historical analysis and reviews what other scholars have said about Faulkner’s Indigenous peoples. It demonstrates the importance of stories crafted from historical documentation to understanding Faulkner’s Mississippi. At the time that Faulkner was writing, Choctaws were engaged in their own storytelling. The tales Mississippi Choctaws spun over the course of Faulkner’s life demonstrate how subaltern peoples use historical narratives, even painful ones, for powerful political purposes. Considering the actions of Mississippi’s actual Indigenous peoples locates Faulkner’s imaginary Indigenous peoples in a critical historical context of colonialism. The stories that Mississippi Choctaws crafted about themselves, excavated from the archives, deserve a place alongside Faulkner’s work as a way to think about Native Southerners and that elusive and contingent thing we call truth
{"title":"“Brother: Is This Truth?”","authors":"Katherine M. B. Osburn","doi":"10.14325/MISSISSIPPI/9781496818096.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/MISSISSIPPI/9781496818096.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This essay approaches Faulkner’s stories about Mississippi Indians from the perspective of a historian of the Native South. It discusses shifting ideas about the role of narrative in historical analysis and reviews what other scholars have said about Faulkner’s Indigenous peoples. It demonstrates the importance of stories crafted from historical documentation to understanding Faulkner’s Mississippi. At the time that Faulkner was writing, Choctaws were engaged in their own storytelling. The tales Mississippi Choctaws spun over the course of Faulkner’s life demonstrate how subaltern peoples use historical narratives, even painful ones, for powerful political purposes. Considering the actions of Mississippi’s actual Indigenous peoples locates Faulkner’s imaginary Indigenous peoples in a critical historical context of colonialism. The stories that Mississippi Choctaws crafted about themselves, excavated from the archives, deserve a place alongside Faulkner’s work as a way to think about Native Southerners and that elusive and contingent thing we call truth","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121445840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-05DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496818096.003.0011
J. Lowe
Faulkner’s portraits of Native Americans have been hotly debated, and it is true his lack of deep knowledge of Mississippi’s Native culture forced him to invent rather generously. To his credit, however, he presented multi-faceted characters, who range from the appalling to the appealing, displaying a full spectrum of human feelings. A little explored aspect of these tales is their humor. As Faulkner knew, Native cultures employed humor in virtually every aspect of their lives. This is apparent in his underrated story, “A Courtship,” but also in “Lo.” This essay outlines uses of the comic in these tales, and then relates it to authentic Native humor, showing how his artificial constructions both coincide and conflict with actual comic conventions in Native communities; the way in which his comic inventions create intimacy; and how the tales’ humor subverts accepted notions of nineteenth century history.
{"title":"Red Laughter","authors":"J. Lowe","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496818096.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496818096.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Faulkner’s portraits of Native Americans have been hotly debated, and it is true his lack of deep knowledge of Mississippi’s Native culture forced him to invent rather generously. To his credit, however, he presented multi-faceted characters, who range from the appalling to the appealing, displaying a full spectrum of human feelings. A little explored aspect of these tales is their humor. As Faulkner knew, Native cultures employed humor in virtually every aspect of their lives. This is apparent in his underrated story, “A Courtship,” but also in “Lo.” This essay outlines uses of the comic in these tales, and then relates it to authentic Native humor, showing how his artificial constructions both coincide and conflict with actual comic conventions in Native communities; the way in which his comic inventions create intimacy; and how the tales’ humor subverts accepted notions of nineteenth century history.","PeriodicalId":389542,"journal":{"name":"Faulkner and the Native South","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114833319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}