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Our class Zotero database ended up being a perfect place to find books / articles, since it includes a lot of sources that touch on both modernism and Southern identity. I can tell that Matthew’s work will definitely be important in my project. I also ended up being exposed to a whole new area of Faulkner studies that I hadn’t really paid much attention to, which is the way in which Faulkner’s work seems to share similarities with global Japanese, South-Asian, third world writers, and etc. It’s a bit confusing because I do like the research question how does Faulkner represent the ‘New South’ in his interwar novels?, but I’m thinking that there’s maybe some way of including these global parallels in my project? Or maybe the smart thing would be to shift my project completely. For example: I’m really interested in how similar TSAF is to Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, in terms of themes of social uncertainty, incest, etc. I actually included an article that touches on that idea (there aren’t many). So basically, my sources kind of bridge on two different topics at the moment (‘The New South’ and Global Studies).
Saida: this has been a hot topic in Faulkner studies, ever since Glissant’s FAULKNER, MISSISSIPPI in the late 80s. Of the stuff we’re reading, AA is the most “global” in the sense that the novel takes us to Haiti and the history of the slave trade. There’s been interesting recent work on Faulkner and Indians: it wouldn’t be too tough to read through maybe 100-150 pp worth of the short fiction that tells the story of Ikkemotubbe, the Chickasaw (sometimes Choctaw) chief who first sold land to whites. A comparative piece drawing from some of the stuff you’re doing with Perera would also be cool.