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The biographical record of William Faulkner’s life has yet to come to terms with the life-long friendships he maintained with gay men, the extent to which he immersed himself into gay communities in Greenwich Village and New Orleans, and how profoundly this part of his life influenced his “apocryphal” creation of Yoknapatawpha County. This dissertation is a biographical study of William Faulkner () as his life coincided with a particular moment in LGBT history when the words homosexual and queer were undergoing profound changes and when our contemporary understanding of gay identity was becoming a widespread and recognizable epistemology.

The connections forged in this study--based on archival research from Joseph. Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men, among them Ben Wasson, William Spratling, and Hubert Creekmore, and places his fiction into established canons of LGBTQ literature, including World War I literature and representations of homosexuality from the Cold War.

The book offers a full. Dr. Pip Gordon, associate professor of English and Gay Studies coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, explores Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner’s ties to LGBTQ literature and culture in his recently-published book, “Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond” (University Press of Mississippi). The book explores the lifelong.

WHEN I SAW the title of this Faulkner study, researched and written by a professor of English and gay studies at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, my first reaction was a “What?” of disbelief. I’ve read most of Faulkner’s novels and many of his short stories and the gay hypothesis never occurred to me. Faulkner struck me as the epitome of the straight, married, traditional. What type of research was involved in writing the book?

For a few moments there was silence in the taxi. His publishers were so pleased that they asked him to come to New York to celebrate its publication.

While Gay Faulkner is a solid academic work, the notes are as absorbing as the text, and the bibliography constitutes a summation of Queer Faulkner studies. William Faulkner in Faulkner would not return to New York until November to rendezvous with Young. Recognizing that something was wrong, Ford went to check on Faulkner with the help of her friend Harvey Breit.

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His attempt to move to New York was motivated by a manuscript for a novel he wrote in the years after his graduation. A gay-themed novel was published in , however, by an author from Water Valley, Mississippi, a gay author whom William Faulkner not only knew but had once even endorsed to his then-publisher Harrison Smith. My time working in the archive was a joy, and I return to the archive often and work with the Center for Faulkner Studies attached to it every chance I can.

What drew you to William Faulkner and this book project? Ford told that Dean introduced her to his brother, a struggling writer at the time. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. The two men would not meet again and certainly never struck up any friendship. Modeled after the weekly salons that Gertrude Stein and Alice B. William Faulkner met Christopher Isherwood at least twice. Gordon, who has taught at UW-Platteville since fall , studies the development of gay cultures and identities through the last century.

What do you hope people take away from it? If Faulkner never had sex with another male, was he gay? William Faulkner began to fascinate me when I was in high school. Ratliff lives and moves back to its origins in the writings of the closeted gay English author Walter Pater. The archival research changed my entire approach to and understanding of sexuality studies.

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Gordon trains a queer eye on many Faulkner works with solid results. While Gordon dives deep into queer theory, he maintains a conversational tone, welcoming readers from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. In Hubert Creekmore published The Welcome. Log In My Account. Kelly, Mississippi Quarterly According to Gordon, nearly all its members were gay. Moreover, it avoids overstating the arguments in favor of any given premise, recognizing that any evaluation of Faulkner must ultimately accept the ambiguities and uncertainties that reside in both his life and his texts.

He was joined by Ben Wasson. Faulkner did eventually move to the Village, finding an apartment at 35 Vandam Street.