Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty

Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty continues this groundbreaking work, but instead of foregrounding the problem of the color line, Ladd addresses a new constellation of linked themes, central among them the vexed place of gendered literary agency in a region where and era when subjects of all kinds underwent the painful experience of delayed modernization. [...] an engagement demanded of the novelist a new sensitivity to the oppressive power of the official archive or "History" that plays such a central role in A Fable.\n Yet if the runner recalls Ike McCaslin in their shared renunciation of patrimony, he does so in a particular quest to challenge "the state's attempts to transcend the violence of history in the name of History" (101).