Barbara Ladd - Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (Southern Literary Studies)
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Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner is a strikingly original study of works by three postbellum novelists with strong ties to the Deep South and Mississippi Valley. In it, Barbara Ladd argues that writers like Cable, Twain, and Faulkner cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically defined American literature, but must also be understood in light of the cultural legacy that French and Spanish colonialism bestowed on the Deep South and the Mississippi River Valley, specifically with respect to the very different ways these colonialist cultures conceptualized race, color, and nationality. Ladds book raises provocative questions about the relationships between race, region, and nationalism in literary study. With its innovative approach and rich New Historicist method, it is an important contribution to scholarship in several fields.
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Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner Southern Literary Studies
author
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Ladd, Barbara.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807120650
print isbn13
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9780807120651
ebook isbn13
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9780585283203
language
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English
subject
American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, Cable, George Washington,--1844-1925--Political and social views, Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Political and social views, Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Political and social views, American fiction--W
publication date
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1996
lcc
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PS261.L33 1996eb
ddc
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810.9/975
subject
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American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, Cable, George Washington,--1844-1925--Political and social views, Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Political and social views, Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Political and social views, American fiction--W
Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner
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Southern Literary Studies Fred Hobson, Editor
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Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner
Barbara Ladd
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Copyright 1996 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 5 4 3 2 1
Designer: Amanda McDonald Key Typeface: Palatino Typesetter: Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ladd, Barbara. Nationalism and the color line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner / Barbara Ladd. p. cm. (Southern literary studies) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8071-2065-0 (alk. paper) 1. American fictionSouthern StatesHistory and criticism. 2. Cable, George Washington, 18441925Political and social views. 3. Faulkner, William, 18971962Political and social views. 4. Twain, Mark, 18351910Political and social views. 5. American fictionWhite authorsHistory and criticism. 6. National characteristics, American, in literature. 7. American fictionWest Indian influences. 8. Southern StatesIn literature. 9. Afro Americans in literature. 10. Race relations in literature. 11. Racism in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PS261.L33 1996 810.9'975dc20 96-21711 CIP
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Manuscripts Department, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, La., for permission to publish excerpts from Robert Underwood Johnson's letters to George W. Cable in the George Washington Cable Collection. Portions of Chapter 2 were first published as "'An Atmosphere of Hints and Allusions': Bras-Coup and the Context of Black Insurrection in The Grandissimes," Southern Quarterly, XXIX (Spring, 1991), 6376. Portions of Chapter 4 were first published as "'The Direction of the Howling': Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom!," American Literature, LXVI (1994), 52551, copyright by Duke University Press, and are reproduced by permission.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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In time they could not even locate the direction any more of the howling. Absalom, Absalom!
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Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xxi
1 Race and National Identity in the Work of White Writers
1
2 George W. Cable and American Nationalism
37
3 Mark Twain, American Nationalism, and the Color Line
85
4 William Faulkner and the Discourse of Race and Nation
139
Bibliography
177
Index
191
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Preface
The idea of nationalism has been of fundamental importance in the construction of history in the modern world. In fact, one scholar has called it "the pathology of modern developmental history." Not everyone is so condemning. Ernest Gellneralways critical of the widespread belief in the "naturalness" and inevitability of nationalismdefines it straightforwardly as "the political principle which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent." It is considerably easier, however, to define nationalism than to define or delineate the boundaries of the ''nation," upon which the principle depends. The most famous definition may be Joseph Stalin's: "A nation is a historically-evolved, stable community of language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a community of culture." This definition is not the most reliable. Like most, it raises a number of questionsabout the nature of a "community" (of "language" or of "culture"), or of a "territory" (which might be geographical, temporal, or even illusory). There is also some disagreement about whether a nation is better described as "historically-evolved" (which it is) or as "pre-historical" in origin (which it also is). Can one choose one's nation? For many statists, the answer is yes: nationality is "a status freely chosen,
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