|  Barbara
Ladd
Associate professor of English
Emory University
“William Faulkner through Women’s and African
American History: Nancy Mannigoe”
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
3:30 p.m.
Location TBA
Left to right: Barbara Ladd, Rebecca
Mark,Harriet Pollack, Suzanne
Marrs, Sharon Baris, and in the background
Susan Donaldson. At
Chateaubriand's
castle, on a side trip fromthe 2nd International Eudora
Welty Conference
in Rennes, France
October 17-19, 2002
The importance of history in the work of William Faulkner is,
if not quite indisputable, widely accepted, but unfortunately
the history used to read Faulkner has been predominantly the
history of white men. The book project on which Professor Ladd
is working takes some of the defining events of African American
and women’s history and salient aspects of black and female
cultural life as a rubric for a rereading of the role of history
in Faulkner’s work, and, in her talk, Professor Ladd will
discuss the reasons for rereading Faulkner in this way and look
at some of the implications of the project through an examination
of the figure of Nancy Mannigoe and southern/trans(south)atlantic
routes of human trafficking and cultural exchange.
Barbara Ladd teaches at Emory University, where she specializes
in American literature, with particular interests in Faulkner,
race, gender, writing in the U.S. South, and trans(south)atlantic
studies. She is the author of Resisting History: Gender,
Modernity, Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston,
and Eudora
Welty (LSU 2007) and Nationalism and the Color Line
in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (LSU, 1997). Recent
publications include “Literary Studies: The Southern United
States, 2005” (PMLA, October 2005) and “Faulkner,
Glissant, and a Creole Poetics of History and the Body in Absalom,
Absalom! and A Fable,” Faulkner in the 21st Century (Mississippi,
2003). An essay, “Race as Fact and Fiction in Faulkner,” scheduled
to appear in A Companion to William Faulkner (Blackwell, 2007),
is part of the new project on which she will be speaking.
For more information, please visit: http://english.emory.edu/faculty/ladd.html.
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