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King recognizes three stages of "historical consciousness"--a term poorly defined by him and most others who overuse it--in the Southern Renaissance, an intellectual outburst after World War I that includes William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Thomas Wolfe, Lillian Smith, W.J. Cash, C. Vann Woodward, and Robert Penn Warren. King observes that these three historical stages leading up to the Southern Renaissance--repitition, recollection, reassimilation--parallel exactly the process of psychoanalysis. The writer and historians of this era, climaxing in Woodward, struggled to reassess the Southern burden, the Gone With the Wind fantasy of hoopskirts and grace, the centerpiece...
FROM WILLIAM FAULKNER to Harold Robbins, interracial sex has ignited the imaginations of American writers. The most popular of these works dealing with sex between Blacks and whites share a similar protagonist, usually a physically powerful but intellectually deprived Black man, who comes to a tragic end as the Victim of Society, headed for the electric chair or castration by a lynch mob for the alleged rape of a precious white girl...
Fiction is full of lawyers, from Louis Auchincloss's glossy barristers to the spoonbread counselors of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. But none of them seems as recognizable-or amiable-as the hero of George V. Higgins' latest novel. Moreover, if Kennedy's clients are criminals, they are also Higgins' liveliest creations. Take Cadillac Teddy, a professional car thief who specializes in Cadillacs. "Your Porsche, your Corvette, your Jaguar, your Mercedes, I can get you them, but I'm not used to them, you know?" His current complaint: a state trooper has eaten his driver...
FICTION: Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Passion Play, Jerzy Kosinski ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth ∙ Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner, Edited by Joseph Blotner
FICTION: Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙ Passion Play, Jerzy Kosinski ∙ Shikasta, Doris Lessing The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer ∙ The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth ∙ Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner, edited by Joseph Blotner