Faulkner's Enduring Queerness

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Publication Date

5-1-2024

Abstract

While William Faulkner’s firmly ensconced place in American literature and in discussions of the South has led to a panoply of ways to study his legacy, until recently little attention was paid to his deep ties to gay men and gay cultures in not only New York and New Orleans but also in the small towns in Mississippi that he considered home. However, if there is a “Gay Faulkner,” it does not necessarily follow that his works speak to the diversifying landscape of the queer South or to the range of experiences that define LGBTQIA+ life in this place that he once called his “postage stamp of native soil.” In this SouthTalk, Gordon discusses Faulkner’s relevance to broadening fields of trans and ace studies and the value such approaches have to our understanding of Faulkner and the South. Phillip “Pip” Gordon is a visiting assistant professor of gender studies in the Sarah Isom Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is returning to the South after nearly a decade as an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, where he was also LGBTQ+ studies coordinator and a 2018 recipient of the UW-System’s P. B. Poorman Award for contributions to LGBTQ+ visibility. He is the author of Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond.

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