Jay Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Faulkner and History
William Faulkner remains a historian's writer. A distinguished roster of historians has referenced Faulkner in their published work. They are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of narrative reflections on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist, and dramatist of the fraught enterprise of doing history; and as a historical figure himself, especially following his mid-century emergence as a public intellectual after winn…
Tracking Faulkner in the Paths of Black Modernism
This essay tracks the relationship between Faulkner’s career and the development of modern African American literature. It shows how the development of black modernism created a new environment for his work, for his work’s reception, and ultimately for his literary imagination—as well as how black writers responded to his work. Faulkner’s approach to fiction developed out of many of the same intellectual cross-currents that gave rise to interest …
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas
At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist and critic Édouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that “Faulkner’s oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African Americans,” a goal that “will be achieved by a radically ‘other’ reading.” In the spirit of Glissant’s prediction, Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas places William Faulkner’s literary oeuvre in dialogue with a hemispheric canon o…
Faulkner and Whiteness
William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the South. Throughout the writer's career, racial paradigms were in flux, and these shifting notions are reflected in Faulkner's prose. Faulkner's fiction contains frequent questions about the ways in which white Americans view themselves with regard to race along wit…
Globalizing a Southern Classic
Research Article| December 01 2006 Globalizing a Southern Classic: An Example from Colonial Virginia Jay Watson Jay Watson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 727–730. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-4-727 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jay Watson; Globalizing a Southern Classic: An Example from Colonial Virginia. American Literature 1 December…
Uncovering the Body, Discovering Ideology
Uncovering the Body, Discovering Ideology: Segregation and Sexual Anxiety in Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream Jay Watson (bio) The discovery that a person could take control of his body, and in the process think powerfully, in other words with and in that body; that is to say, the discovery that the body was capable of thinking as it realised its full potential really excited me, as I confirmed what I had truly experienced for myself. In thei…
Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls: Exploratory Repetition and Maternal Subjectivity in the Fort/Da Game Jay Watson Psychoanalysis, whether it posits in the beginning maternal presence or absence, has yet to develop a story of the mother as other than the object of the infant’s desire or the matrix from which he or she develops an infant subjectivity. The mother herself as speaking subject, as author, is missing from these dramas. (Garner, Kahane, and Sprengnether 1…
William Faulkner and Southern History
Forensic Fictions
A critical study of William Faulkner's fictional depictions of the legal vocation and the practice of law. Examining Faulkner's lawyer characters in the light of the southern storytelling tradition, Watson argues that their forensic competence is a function of their skill as raconteurs
The Myth of the North American City
The Myth of the North American City
William Faulkner and Southern History
Forensic Fictions
A critical study of William Faulkner's fictional depictions of the legal vocation and the practice of law. Examining Faulkner's lawyer characters in the light of the southern storytelling tradition, Watson argues that their forensic competence is a function of their skill as raconteurs
Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls: Exploratory Repetition and Maternal Subjectivity in the Fort/Da Game Jay Watson Psychoanalysis, whether it posits in the beginning maternal presence or absence, has yet to develop a story of the mother as other than the object of the infant’s desire or the matrix from which he or she develops an infant subjectivity. The mother herself as speaking subject, as author, is missing from these dramas. (Garner, Kahane, and Sprengnether 1…
Uncovering the Body, Discovering Ideology
Uncovering the Body, Discovering Ideology: Segregation and Sexual Anxiety in Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream Jay Watson (bio) The discovery that a person could take control of his body, and in the process think powerfully, in other words with and in that body; that is to say, the discovery that the body was capable of thinking as it realised its full potential really excited me, as I confirmed what I had truly experienced for myself. In thei…
Globalizing a Southern Classic
Research Article| December 01 2006 Globalizing a Southern Classic: An Example from Colonial Virginia Jay Watson Jay Watson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 727–730. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-4-727 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jay Watson; Globalizing a Southern Classic: An Example from Colonial Virginia. American Literature 1 December…
Faulkner and Whiteness
William Faulkner wrote during a tumultuous period in southern racial consciousness, between the years of the enactment of Jim Crow and the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the South. Throughout the writer's career, racial paradigms were in flux, and these shifting notions are reflected in Faulkner's prose. Faulkner's fiction contains frequent questions about the ways in which white Americans view themselves with regard to race along wit…
Tracking Faulkner in the Paths of Black Modernism
This essay tracks the relationship between Faulkner’s career and the development of modern African American literature. It shows how the development of black modernism created a new environment for his work, for his work’s reception, and ultimately for his literary imagination—as well as how black writers responded to his work. Faulkner’s approach to fiction developed out of many of the same intellectual cross-currents that gave rise to interest …
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas
At the turn of the millennium, the Martinican novelist and critic Édouard Glissant offered the bold prediction that “Faulkner’s oeuvre will be made complete when it is revisited and made vital by African Americans,” a goal that “will be achieved by a radically ‘other’ reading.” In the spirit of Glissant’s prediction, Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas places William Faulkner’s literary oeuvre in dialogue with a hemispheric canon o…
Faulkner and History
William Faulkner remains a historian's writer. A distinguished roster of historians has referenced Faulkner in their published work. They are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of narrative reflections on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist, and dramatist of the fraught enterprise of doing history; and as a historical figure himself, especially following his mid-century emergence as a public intellectual after winn…
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