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

摘要：

本文探讨了杰斯米·沃德（Jesmyn Ward）的小说《唱歌，未埋葬，唱歌》（2017）如何与密西西比州同胞威廉·福克纳的遗产相融合。就像福克纳（Faulkner）的《我躺在床上》（As I Lay Dying）（1930年）一样，辛格讲述了家庭分裂的整个密西西比州公路旅行的故事，但沃德对导致这种分裂的社会条件有不同的解释，比福克纳更能预见到家庭分裂的广泛影响。种族主义。辛格还通过对Parchman Farm的描绘来考察种族主义法律实践的持久后果，Parchman Farm是福克纳（Faulkner）作品中的一个监狱兼棉花种植园