Go Slow Now: Faulkner And The Race Question
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Jacket: Very good
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At the heart of one of America's most turbulent social debates stands William Faulkner, a literary giant whose complex and often contradictory pronouncements on race left the nation both riveted and confounded. Go Slow Now: Faulkner and the Race Question by Charles D. Peavy presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of the Nobel laureate's public and private stances on racial integration during the Civil Rights era, dissecting the infamous go slow rhetoric that made Faulkner as controversial a public intellectual as he was a celebrated novelist. Peavy argues with scholarly precision that Faulkner's attitudes cannot be dismissed as simple Southern conservatism, instead situating them within the broader tapestry of his fiction, his Mississippi heritage, and the agonising moral contradictions of mid-century America. This critical study illuminates the fault lines between an artist's humane vision and the limitations of his social courage, raising a question that resonates far beyond one man's biography: can a writer's moral failures be separated from the genius of their work? For anyone who has wrestled with Faulkner's towering legacy, this volume is an essential and deeply unsettling reckoning.
Author: Charles D. Peavy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, University of Oregon Books
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
At the heart of one of America's most turbulent social debates stands William Faulkner, a literary giant whose complex and often contradictory pronouncements on race left the nation both riveted and confounded. Go Slow Now: Faulkner and the Race Question by Charles D. Peavy presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of the Nobel laureate's public and private stances on racial integration during the Civil Rights era, dissecting the infamous go slow rhetoric that made Faulkner as controversial a public intellectual as he was a celebrated novelist. Peavy argues with scholarly precision that Faulkner's attitudes cannot be dismissed as simple Southern conservatism, instead situating them within the broader tapestry of his fiction, his Mississippi heritage, and the agonising moral contradictions of mid-century America. This critical study illuminates the fault lines between an artist's humane vision and the limitations of his social courage, raising a question that resonates far beyond one man's biography: can a writer's moral failures be separated from the genius of their work? For anyone who has wrestled with Faulkner's towering legacy, this volume is an essential and deeply unsettling reckoning.