Pitavy-Souques, Danile Penner, Erin Kay Lennon, Gavan

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Black Music, a Prelude to the Invention of Faulkners World: The Seminal/Pivotal Function of Place / Danile Pitavy-Souques, Universit de BourgogneBlack Music will be examined as a founding text, where Faulkner becomes an American writer from the South. Here, for the first time, the text tells a story founded on dramatic events and set in a place of Faulkners own invention that represents the first draft of the fictional world that will become Yoknapatawpha. The use of newspaper clippings inspired by the collages of avant-garde painters like Braque causes a first territorial shift. The creation of wild sexualized backwoods that speak of the dream and the fury gives the story its intriguing role in the development of Faulkners literary career. The complex notion of the Two Arcadias (Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory) will be used as a critical tool. Song and Silence: Unproductive Mourning in Go Down, Moses / Erin Kay Penner, Cornell UniversityOn this occasion it seems fitting to reconsider Faulkners investment in rewriting the language of mourning. In this paper I take up elegiac Faulkner in a somewhat unexpected place: with Rider of the story Pantaloon in Black. This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Go Down, Moses, in which the story appears. Through Rider, Faulkner fashions a new, deliberately un-productive figure of mourning that challenges the long shadow of Freud on our conception of grief and mourning. Taken as a whole, Go Down, Moses marks a radical departure from the aesthetic of black endurance...

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