Critics have long recognized William Faulkner as one of twentieth-century literature’s foremost students and chroniclers of the vicissitudes and viscerality of embodiment, in both human and nonhuman forms. There’s still much to be said, however, about the role of “the” body in his imagination and work: characters rendered in strikingly embodied terms; recurring scenes of bodily extremity and damage; narrative immersions in perception and affect; the often violent inscription of identity, difference, and other modalities of meaning on bodies; not to mention the writer’s own complex embodiments of literary authorship. We will take up such questions and more at the fifty-first annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference, over four days of keynote lectures and readings, academic panels, teaching sessions, exhibits, tours, and other activities.
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