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Illustrations. Preface. 1 Fictions of History: An Approach to Faulkner. I. On Privacy: Faulkner and the Human Subject. II. History as Autobiography: The World of Faulkner. III. Autobiography as History: The Life of Faulkner. 2 Faulkner the Apprentice. I. Trying Out Different Voices: The Early Prose and Poetry. II. Of Loss and Longing: Soldier's Pay and Mosquitoes. 3 Rewriting the Homeplace. I. Ancestor Worship, Patricide, and the Epic Past: Flags in the Dust and Sartoris. II. Voices, Absence, and Cultural Autobiography: The Sound of the Fury. III. A Southern Carnival: As I Lay Dying. IX. And Woman Was Invented: Sanctuary. 4 Of Past and Present Conflicts. I. Language, Power, and the Verbal Community: Light in August. II. The Virile Pilot and the Seductions of the Aitr: Pylon. III. History is What Hurts; Absalom, Absalom!. IV. The Plantation Romance and the Madwoman in the Attic: The Unvanquished. 5 Public Faces and Private Places. I. Now About These Women: The Wild Palms. II. Let's Make A Deal: The Hamlet. III. Things Fall Apart: Go Down, Moses. IV. Watching the Detectives: Intruder in the Dust. 6 The Way Home. I. Finished and Unfinished Business: Knight's Gambit and Requiem for a Nun. II. Of Crowds, Control, and Courage: A Fable. III. Distant Voice, Desperate Lives: The Towns. IV. Then the Letting Go: The Mansion. Postscript: Back To Earth. Poatscript: Back to Earth. I The Romance of the Family: The Reivers. II. 'I was Here' Faulkner Family Tree. Faulkner Family Tress. I The Faulkners. II. Faulkner's Wife. III. 'The Old Colonel's' Second Wife and Family. IV. Faulkner's Mother. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index.