Where the Line Draws Blood: Faulkner, Ward, and the Policing of Race
Location
Nutt Auditorium
Start Date
22-7-2018 2:30 PM
Description
Like William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward has created a richly textured, fictional-yet-historically-true Mississippi community in her novels. Yet their perspectives on race are radically different. One sees race as an immutable fact in the mind of white people. The other sees race as something created by a centuries-old history of policing African-American movement—a history that begins in slavery, and continues with deadly effect to this day.
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Baptist, Edward E., "Where the Line Draws Blood: Faulkner, Ward, and the Policing of Race" (2018). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 2.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/2018/schedule/2
Where the Line Draws Blood: Faulkner, Ward, and the Policing of Race
Nutt Auditorium
Like William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward has created a richly textured, fictional-yet-historically-true Mississippi community in her novels. Yet their perspectives on race are radically different. One sees race as an immutable fact in the mind of white people. The other sees race as something created by a centuries-old history of policing African-American movement—a history that begins in slavery, and continues with deadly effect to this day.