Contents
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction: Faulkner's Spatial Politics 000
1. Comparative Southern Questions: The Unavoidable Significance of the Local 000
2. Social Classes in the Southern Economy: Snopesism and the Emergence of a Comprador Elite 000
3. The Poetics of Peripheralization, Part 1: Historiography, Narrative, and Unequal Development 000
4. The Poetics of Peripheralization, Part 2: Absalom, Absalom! as Revisionist Historiography 000
Conclusion: The World, the Text, and Eurocentric Intellectualism 000
Notes 000
Works Cited 000
Index 000