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Southern Lit students take a walk in Faulkner's footsteps Students in Lindsey Wilson Colleges Southern Literature class made a pilgrimage last weekend to the epicenter of the genre -- Oxford, Mississippi. The students, led by Associate Professor of English Morris A. Grubbs, were immersed in Southern culture in general and the life of the late Pulitzer-prize author William Faulkner in particular. Oxford has much to offer the student of Southern history and literature, Grubbs said. Next to New Orleans, it is probably the most literary town in the South. Faulkners presence remains strong and palpable, and the nurturing literary atmosphere has attracted countless writers and artists who now call Oxford home. It is also incredibly rich in Southern history. From antebellum times to the modern Civil Rights movement and beyond, the layers of Southern history are accessible there. Faulkners central theme is that the past is not dead; its not even past, as one of his characters says. In addition to visiting the graves of Faulkner and his wife, Estelle, in the Oxford cemetery, the students also saw some of the figures and places that inspired Faulkner's stories and novels, including: - the Lafayette County courthouse and Oxford town square, which Fualkner called the center, the focus, the hub of life in his fictional Yoknapatawpha and was also the location of the 1949 movie of Faulkners novel Intruder in the Dust; - the grave of Caroline Barr (1840-1940), who was the Faulkner family caretaker, the writers direct connection to black culture and the antebellum South, and the inspiration for the character of Dilsey in The Sound and the Fury; - the Thompson-Chandler house, the basis for the Compson house in The Sound and the Fury; - Ammadele, one of the houses in Oxford that is the basis for Thomas Sutpens mansion in Absalom, Absalom!; - and then in Ripley, Miss., they saw the grave and statue of Faulkners great grandfather, William C. Falkner, who was known as the Old Colonel, a Civil War colonel, railroad builder and novelist, the basis for two of Faulkners major characters. Faulkners Yoknapatawpha county, the fictional counterpart of Oxford and Lafayette county, is the setting for most of his novels and short stories, Grubbs said. Visiting the place, experiencing the landscape, walking among the houses and people all deepened our understanding and appreciation of Faulkners art. It gave us greater insight into the conflicts and tensions present in his characters hearts and minds. Some of the students also made a special midnight pilgrimage to Faulkners grave. Our hotel was a two-minute walk from the courthouse square and a ten-minute walk from St. Peters Cemetery, Grubbs said. Saturday night, nine of us made a pilgrimage at midnight to Faulkners grave, where by flashlight we took turns reading one of his ghost stories. We had a hauntingly good time, as I suspect he would have wanted. The students also had three private talks by three scholars from the University of Mississippi: historian Leigh McWhite spoke about the extensive archival material Ole Miss has on Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Richard Wright; Faulkner museum curator William Griffith gave the students a private guided tour of Faulkners home, Rowan Oak; and Donald Kartiganer, one of the worlds foremost Faulkner scholars, gave the students a tour of Rowan Oak grounds. Lindsey Wilson student Jordan Woody of Columbia said the trip deepened her appreciation and understanding of Southern literature. Before this class, I didnt know a lot about Faulkner and his work, said Woody, an English and education sophomore. In fact, I didnt really know there was a thing called Southern Literature before I took this class. Kartiganer and his wife then hosted the Lindsey Wilson students for lunch and a discussion of Absalom, Absalom! (the novel the students have been reading) at their home in downtown Oxford, which is about a block away from Rowan Oak. Also in Oxford, the students visited the Lyceum, the Ole Miss administration building, which was the scene of racial protests in 1961-62; and Square Books, one of Americas most famous independently owned bookstores. The students also toured the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, located at the former Loraine Motel, site of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination. This story was posted on 2006-03-14 21:09:19
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