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Of Trips Taken and Time Served: How Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing Grapples with Faulkner’s Ghosts
- African American Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 53, Number 3, Fall 2020
- pp. 201-216
- 10.1353/afa.2020.0031
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
This article examines how Jesmyn Ward’s novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) engages with the legacy of fellow Mississippian William Faulkner. Like Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930), Sing tells the story of a fragmenting family’s road trip across Mississippi, but Ward offers a different account of the social conditions that prompt such fragmentation, doing more than Faulkner to foreground the wide-ranging effects of racism. Sing also examines the enduring consequences of racist legal practices through its portrayal of Parchman Farm—a prison-cum-cotton-plantation that also features in Faulkner’s work
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