Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art Book

Contents

List of Illustrations....................ix
Preface....................xii
Acknowledgments....................xviii
General Introduction....................1
Part 1. William Faulkner and Caroline "Callie" Barr INTRODUCTION....................19
1. Caroline Barr in Black and White Voices....................25
2. Caroline Barr's Origins....................34
3. Negotiating the "Mammy" Tradition: Callie Barr as "Second Mother"....................56
4. Callie Barr and Maud Falkner....................66
5. Caroline Barr and Faulkner's Poetics: Go Down, Moses....................89
6. Family Secrets: "Mississippi"....................111
Part 2. Faulkner's Mother, Maud Butler Falkner INTRODUCTION....................129
7. Maud's Mysterious Ancestry....................139
8. Willie Falkner's Childhood World, 1896-1907....................161
9. From Honor Roll to Truancy, 1907-1914....................186
10. Choosing Roles and Role Models....................197
11. Learning to Speak with His Eyes....................205
12. Reading Faulkner's "Mothers"....................221
Parts 3, 4, and 5. William Faulkner and Estelle Oldham INTRODUCTION....................237
Part 3. Estelle and Billy, 1903-1914 13. Estelle Oldham's Mississippi Frontier Family....................249
14. Kosciusko Childhood, Southern Belledom, and Estelle's Fictional Memoir, 1897-1903....................264
15. Billy Falkner and Estelle Oldham, Oxford, 1903-1914....................289
Part 4. First Loves, First "Marriages," 1914-1926 16. Shifting Alliances, 1914-1918....................309
17. The Oldham-Franklin Wedding, April1918....................323
18. Marriage in the "Crossroads of the Pacific," June-September 1918....................336
19. An Army Wife, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, September 1918-May 1919....................348
20. Stolen Interludes, 1919 and 1921....................359
21. The Marketing of Estelle and Her Rebellion....................387
Part 5. The Emergence of a Mature Novelist 22. Estelle's Shanghai Sojourn, 1922-1924....................407
23. Collaborating with Estelle, Oxford, 1924-1925....................424
24. Faulkner's Other Collaboration, New Orleans, 1924 and 1925....................441
25. The Sound and the Fury and Its Aftermath, 1925-1933....................456
26. Faulkner's Suppressed Tributes to Estelle, 1933-1935....................481
List of Abbreviations....................501
Notes....................504
Select Bibliography....................569
Index....................581