“Faulkner’s Big Woods and the Historical Necessity of Revision.” Mississippi Quarterly 49 (1996): 475-95. JSTOR Access
Examines historical context of period following the Brown v. Board of Education decision and possible effects of desegregation on Faulkner’s revising of material in Go Down, Moses for Big Woods, an ostensible gift book of hunting stories. Article is noted as “valuable” addition to Faulkner studies in 1996 American Literary Scholarship Faulkner chapter.
“Cross-Cultural Reading and Generic Transformations: The Chronotope of the Road in Erdrich’s Love Medicine.” American Literature 67 (1995): 777-92. JSTOR Access
Uses Bakhtin’s chronotope to examine generic and cultural features of Erdrich’s novel as a picaresque, postmodern, and communal text.
“‘Dangerously Absent Dreamers’: Genealogy, History, and the Political Left in Vineland.” Pynchon Notes 30-31 (1992): 39-51. Abstract and link to PDF
Finds initial narrative of family masks the principal historical narrative of the political left in twentieth-century America.
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