At the flip of the millennium, the Martinican novelist �douard Glissant provided the daring prediction that �Faulkner�s oeuvre should be made whole whilst it truly is revisited and made very important by way of African Americans,� a objective that �will be completed through a greatly �other� reading.� within the spirit of Glissant�s prediction, this assortment locations William Faulkner�s literary oeuvre in discussion with a hemispheric canon of black writing from the USA and the Caribbean. The volume�s seventeen essays and poetry choices chart traces of engagement, discussion, and reciprocal resonance among Faulkner and his black precursors, contemporaries, and successors within the Americas.

Contributors position Faulkner�s paintings in illuminating dialog with writings through Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Randall Kenan, Edward P. Jones, and Natasha Trethewey, in addition to the musical artistry of Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton.

In addition, 5 modern African American poets supply their very own artistic responses to Faulkner�s writings, characters, verbal paintings, and ancient instance. In those methods, the amount develops a comparative method of the Faulkner oeuvre that is going past the compelling yet proscribing query of influence�who learn whom, whose works draw from whose�to discover the confluences among Faulkner and black writing within the hemisphere.